Comments for Scholarly Open Access

Comment on “Please add my journal to your list” by Jeffrey Beall

Jeffrey Beall — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:27:51 +0000

I take your point.

Comment on “Please add my journal to your list” by naomi

naomi — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:23:19 +0000

it’s a bit unfair to conclude with “Be wary of all OA journals.” when the original article was published in Journal of Biology/BMC Biology, itself an Open Access journal, and a reputable one at that. The problem is not OA but scammers, and a scammer is generally fairly easy to spot.

Comment on Spam from Predatory Open Access Publishers is Dominating my Inbox by conficio

conficio — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:13:16 +0000

There is a good cure for e-mail SPAM – digital signatures. If lots of people (meaning most) do digitally sign their e-mails, then you can be sure of who is the sender and block anything that you don’t like. As digital signatures can be validated (by companies, as well as by any individual), you can reject any unknown signature, if it is nto signed by someone you trust, like a colleague validated that this signature belongs to the person/organization that claims its his/her.

Start the cycle, sign you own e-mail with PGP. Create a key (free), have it signed by colleagues, friends, etc. and publish it for validation.

Comment on More Controversy Over Open-Access Publisher MDPI by Tomasz Leski

Tomasz Leski — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:51:41 +0000

Some of my colleagues publish papers with their Sensors journal, which seems to be a decent journal with more than 10 years of history (with rather modest impact factor around 2). However MDPI recently expanded and added a huge number of new journals with very uninspiring titles (e.g. Atoms, Computers, Climate, Cosmetics, Diseases, Fibers, Galaxies, Laws, Machines, Microorganisms, Proteomes, Risks, Toxics, Vaccines), which have little or no content. Looks like they are out to make more money taking advantage of a few decent titles they inherited from previous publisher.

Comment on More Controversy Over Open-Access Publisher MDPI by bcohen99

bcohen99 — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:10:30 +0000

What is most troubling is reading that a Reuters reporter sees what he/she thinks is a mainstream scientific journal, but does no further journalistic research to find out if that assumption is accurate. Nowadays, an apparent scientific journal can actually operate
more like a magazine, except for charging the authors instead of paying the authors.

Comment on More Controversy Over Open-Access Publisher MDPI by Ifraeem

Ifraeem — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:15:51 +0000

Mr. Beall, if someone ask you about any journal it does not mean that he is asking due to journal’s predatory activities. Many people ask just for a second opinion. Ok………. Now tell me what do you think about these journals, i am evaluating them nowadays: jbsq.org and http://www.mecs-press.org/journals.html

Inform me asap by replying in comments.

Comment on OMICS Ineptly Uses Social Media to Promote its Brands by jbshaldane

jbshaldane — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:39:01 +0000

You can say “Paki” in India to refer to Pakistanis. Not considered offensive.

Comment on OMICS Ineptly Uses Social Media to Promote its Brands by lem

lem — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:21:53 +0000

As an Indian living in India and being inundated by such practices everyday, I must say it’s funny to see a foreigner’s perspective on it. The sad part is that even today, the system enforces such ethics into people. Even when you’re trying to do simple things like lab reports by yourself instead of copying it off of previously made reports like everyone else, it goes totally unappreciated. Slowly most kids start having this mentality that the “end” is the only thing, means are unimportant. Sadly a lot of these “ends” aren’t good either.

Comment on “Please add my journal to your list” by Blogger writes about predatory publishing, is threatened with $1B suit | Padroni

Fri, 17 May 2013 05:01:07 +0000

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Comment on More Controversy Over Open-Access Publisher MDPI by Dr.Syed Zainul Abedin

Dr.Syed Zainul Abedin — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:30:57 +0000

MDPI may also be proved as the initials of ‘Malpractice and Dubious in Publishing International’.
I hope they will not be proved as such bad entity.
The real scientists are working sincerely for contributing for the betterment of humanity.
Let the predators check their greed and allow the real scientists
work with dedication.