Comments on: Four New, Really Bad Scholarly Open-Access Publishers

By: Lincon Hashew

Lincon Hashew — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:02:51 +0000

If it comes from Nigeria then it stinks of a scam. I don’t think any reputable publishing house would charge authors a fee to publish their material. Also they will have an established system of peer review. If this is non-existent then it obviously dodgy. If you have a paper to publish, then search out a relevant journal in your field with an established reputation and approach them.

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By: duanemiller

duanemiller — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:16:53 +0000

Thanks for this. I just submitted a paper to one GARJ deal and they sent me back an e-mail saying I would need to submit a fee. As a researcher in the humanities who has published in some respected journals, this was a first and sent up warnign flags for me. Then I went to the website and couldn’t find a list of the editorial board which was also strange.

By: Keefriff

Keefriff — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:40:32 +0000

Add David Publishing House to your list:
http://www.davidpublishing.org/

They invoice authors after paper acceptance. Manuscripts are being reviewed but usually it takes 2 weeks and no corrections so obviously they accept EVERYTHING they get. Moreover they can even claim to have Impact Factor for some journals however none of them is listed in JCR. Avoid them. Their office seems to be in USA although all the mailing (in poor english) is coming from…China.

Scientific spam.

By: Jeffrey Beall

Jeffrey Beall — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:18:11 +0000

I think that the scrutiny of traditional publishers is already being covered quite well by others. My niche is scholarly, gold open-access publishers.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:50:34 +0000

Thank you for the new “findings” and your continued vigilance concerning unethical and questionable open access publishers and journals. Have you ever thought about expanding the project to also monitor and list unethical and questionable behavior by toll-access journals and publishers? Would be very useful. Such behavior is not acceptable just because a company uses a subscription based publishing model.

By: Roddy MacLeod

Roddy MacLeod — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:43:33 +0000

GARJ state: “GSTF journals are indexed by EBSCO, CrossRef, Proquest, Cabell’s Directories and will be submitted to Scopus, ScienceDirect and amongst others, where applicable.” So, ignoring the “…will be submitted…” bit, there are still three very well-known names there. If EBSCO and ProQuest ARE indexing them (and I have no way of telling), this lends weight to this publisher.