PERIODICALS: PREDATORY JOURNALS : PUBLISHERS PUBLISHING AND PUBLICATIONS: VANITY PRESSES : PERIODICALS: OPEN ACCESS: Beall's List of Predatory,Open-Access Publishers
David P. Dillard
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PERIODICALS: PREDATORY JOURNALS :
PUBLISHERS PUBLISHING AND PUBLICATIONS: VANITY PRESSES :
PERIODICALS: OPEN ACCESS:
Beall's List of Predatory,Open-Access Publishers
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Beall's List of Predatory,Open-Access Publishers
http://metadata.posterous.com/83235355
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http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~jbeall/Beall's%20List%20of%
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"Predatory, open-access publishers are those that unprofessionally
exploit the author-pays model of open-access publishing (Gold OA) for
their own profit. Typically, these publishers spam professional email
lists, broadly soliciting article submissions for the clear purpose of
gaining additional income. Operating essentially as vanity presses, these
publishers typically have a low article acceptance threshold, with a
false-front or non-existent peer review process. Unlike professional
publishing operations, whether subscription-based or ethically-sound open
access, these predatory publishers add little value to scholarship, pay
little attention to digital preservation, and operate using fly-by-night,
unsustainable business models."
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Content Sample:
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Academic Journals
This bogus, Nigeria-based publisher has been around for years,
and continues to increase its journal fleet of over one hundred titles
from all areas of study. Seeking legitimacy, it falsely associates itself
with authentic organizations and conferences.
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Academic Journals, Inc.
One of several Faisalabad, Pakistan-based publishers (likely one
outfit with several brands), this publisher claims to be headquartered in
New York. Its tag line is "Converting research into knowledge," but it
ought to say, "Converting research into cash" (for the publisher).
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Academic Research Publishing Agency*
This publisher, caught here in its formative stage, only has two
titles. The main page invites proposals for new journal titles. Full of
contradictions, this site is confusing. Its content appears to be open
access, but it lists a subscription fee of $400 per year. On one of its
editorial board pages it says, "Elite panel members have a decision weight
equivalent of two referees," so if you know one of these elite members,
you're in luck.
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ANSINetwork
Another of the Faisalabad, Pakistan-based brands of open-access
journals, this one ironically describes itself saying "Asian Network for
Scientific Information is a leading scientific publisher and pinior [sic]
in electronic publication in Asia." I think they mean "pioneer." This typo
is but one example of the errors and unprofessionalism this publisher
presents to the world with each page view.
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Bentham Open
Among the first, large-scale gold OA publishers, Bentham Open
continues to expand its fleet of journals, now numbering over 230. Bentham
essentially operates as a scholarly vanity press.
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Center for Promoting Ideas*
A new publisher with a ridiculous name, this operation is known
to list scholars on its journals' editorial boards without their knowledge
or permission.
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Predatory Open Access Publishers
The Natural Extreme of an Author-Pays Model
Posted by Kent Anderson
The Scholarly Kitchen
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/03/06/predatory-open-access-
publishers-the-natural-extreme-of-an-author-pays-model/
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A recent story in the Chronicle of Higher Education covers a phenomenon
all of us have suspected, mainly because weve seen it via our editorial
boards and editorial advisors the proliferation of open access (OA)
publishers with new names, unknown pedigrees, big promises, and fulsome
editorial boards, which often spam our editors and advisors with offers to
join the parade.
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Problems outlined among the predatory journals include:
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Articles published without complete author approval.
Articles published before payment terms were either understood or
completed.
Articles published with payment terms incomplete but then negotiated,
forcing authors into an uncomfortable position.
An editorial process that created more problems than it solved, with
errors introduced during proof-reading, and authors tearing their hair out
because of it.
Papers published without peer-review.
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March 4, 2012
'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish
The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Michael Stratford
http://chronicle.com/article/Predatory-Online-Journals/131047/
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Amy L. Reynolds, an associate dean at Louisiana State University's Manship
School of Mass Communication, had never heard of the Journal of Mass
Communication and Journalism when she first received an e-mail soliciting
submissions for it. But she took a quick look at the journal's Web site,
recognized some friends and colleagues on its editorial board, and sent a
note about the publishing opportunity to all of her school's graduate
students.
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That's a decision Ms. Reynolds says she now regrets. Several weeks later,
she was shocked to learn that one of her doctoral students had submitted
research to the journal and received an $1,800 invoice in return. Even
though the student refused to pay the fee and withdrew the paper, the
journal published it. To make matters worse, the version that was posted
online contained several mistakes, including a formatting error that made
it appear the student had plagiarized someone else's work.
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As Ms. Reynolds and the student found out, OMICS Publishing Group, the
company that runs the journal, is an open-access publisher operating under
an author-pays model. Unlike traditional journal subscriptions in which
readers or institutions pay to read content, OMICS relies on its
contributors for financial support.
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Although the author-pays model is not a new phenomenon in the realm of
open access, its recent popularity has attracted some companies that try
to exploit it. Some legitimate, peer-reviewed journals support themselves
on the author-pays model, but other journals using the model are
essentially vanity publishers that accept virtually any article to collect
fees from the authors. The distinction between those two extremes, though,
is not always clear-cut.
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Friends or Predators Evaluating Academic Periodicals'
Price Histories as a Means of Making Subscription Decisions
Ferguson, Anthony W
Journal: Journal of library administration
ISSN: 0193-0826 Date: 03/1997
Volume: 24 Issue: 1-2 Page: 73
DOI: 10.1300/J111v24n01_06
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Peter J. Olver is professor of mathematics at the University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His email address is
...written words endure SCRIPTA MANENT
Journals in Flux
Peter J. Olver
http://www.ams.org/notices/201108/rtx110801124p.pdf
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"Finally, I feel compelled to say a brief word
about the dark side of scientific publishing. I
already noted journals artificially manipulating
metrics such as the Impact Factor. More odious are
predatory journals and conferences, which seek to
profit from nae and unscrupulous researchers
through registration fees, pay-to-publish models,
and the like [5]. Furthermore, the bane of plagiarism
is more widespread than many of us acknowledge;
see [6] for some recent cases in SIAM and
my own website [7] for a personal experience that
culminated in legal action and an official acknowledgment
(as well as some remuneration) from the
publisher.
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The community has been far too willingto overlook
such abuses, which has only served toembolden
the perpetrators. For instance, see [8]
for an astonishing case of serial academic fraud in
economics. Only full publicity, including naming
names and, when appropriate, taking legal steps,
will counter these insidious practices. Thus, while
the electronic era has exacerbated older problems
and created new ones such as citation-based metrics,
it also provides a range of potentially powerful
tools that can be employed to combat such nefarious
influences on the profession.
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The time is ripe for a radical rethinking of the
traditional academic model for scholarly communication
within mathematics. While many established
researchers seem uninterested in or unwilling to
fully come to terms with the rapidly shifting electronic
publishing landscape, the community as a
whole cannot afford to lull itself into a false sense
of security. If we are not properly engaged, the
future will be decided for us and, almost certainly,
will not be to our liking."
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