Recently launched, and with 66 brand-new journals, Horizon Research Publishing Corporation carefully hides its headquarters location on its website. The “contact us” page does not list any location. [Update, 2013-06-08: The website now lists this address: Horizon Research Publishing 506 N GARFIELD AVE #210 ALHAMBRA CA 91801 USA].
New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles
May 2, 2013
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Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s
April 4, 2013
House of spam: the Hindawi Office in Cairo, Egypt.
Hindawi Publishing Corporation is one of the world’s largest scholarly publishers — and one of the most profitable.
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Spam from Predatory Open Access Publishers is Dominating my Inbox
March 14, 2013Guest blog post by: Ali Mobasheri, D.Phil., Associate Professor University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
I was a graduate student when e-mail became widely available as a form of communication and the world wide web was getting going in the early 1990’s. Scholars and researchers largely welcomed the advent of the internet and e-mail greatly facilitated communication and collaboration. More than 2 decades later e-mail and the web are dominating academic life and it is hard to imagine how we managed without them. However, e-mail and web-based administration is starting to take over the lives of many academics and researchers. Read the rest of this entry »
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Beware of Spam Email With Offers to Promote Your Research
March 12, 2013There are companies that publish websites or magazines that showcase research. These companies send spam invitations to published researchers inviting them to pay to have their research promoted in the glossy magazines or on the websites.
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Three New Questionable Open-Access Publishers
December 5, 2012
We call for your author fees.
Thanks to tips sent in by scientists and researchers, I learn about several new questionable publishers and independent journals each week. In this blog post, I highlight three questionable publishers that I recently learned about and added to my list. Read the rest of this entry »
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Large New OA Publisher Launches with 85 Journals
November 28, 2012
85 new journals all started at the same time.
A brand-new open-access publisher has just appeared: Science and Education Publishing (SciEP). The publisher is launching with 85 new journals, the second large launch I’ve seen in a single week (OA Publishing London recently launched with 138 brand new journals). Read the rest of this entry »
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ISP Boots Predatory Publisher for Spamming
November 13, 2012
Finally, some consequences for spamming.
Nigeria-based International Research Journals is being cut off by its United States-based Internet service provider for spamming, a violation of the provider’s terms of service. Read the rest of this entry »
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Open-Access Publishing Pyramid Scheme
October 30, 2012
Get paid for peer review (but then you have to pay).
We learned recently about a scholarly publisher that appears to be operating like a pyramid scheme.
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“Peer-Reviewed” Journal Promises Submission to Publication in Four Days
September 9, 2012
“To blindly peer review, where no man has peer reviewed before.”
IJSAT, the International Journal of Science and Advanced Technology, is engaging in a spam email campaign to solicit manuscripts, and it offers a bonus for authors: quick publication.
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Swiss Journals
August 28, 2012
Based in Tehran
We have observed the appearance of a new publisher: Swiss Journals. The publisher offers 16 journal titles in the fields of engineering, applied sciences, and health sciences.
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