Escape into publishing
One main problem with scholarly publishing in the west or westernized countries these days may not have much to do with subscription access vs. open-access. I suggest it may have more to do with a common problem shared by many — if not most — of the executives, principals, and managers who have been hired by the scholarly publishing industry, whether subscription-based or open-access.
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Posted by Jeffrey Beall
How’s that open source thing working out for you?
The MIT Technology Review has been hijacked. In the last few months, I’ve seen an increase in the rate of hijacked journals reported to me.
This blog post also reports the recent hijacking of a Brazilian scholarly society journal.
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A royal mess.
A completely bogus scholarly society, the Australian Society for Commerce Industry & Engineering, uses numerous tricks to make itself look legitimate. This publisher lifts pictures of professors from the internet, gives them new names, and advertises them as editors-in-chief of its mediocre journals.
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The one found at http://www.redlist-arc.org/
The one found at http://amphibian-reptile-conservation.org/index.html
Two open-access journals — each titled Amphibian & Reptile Conservation — both claim to be the official organ of an organization also called Amphibian & Reptile Conservation. The split is the apparent result of a bitter academic “divorce.” Both journals use strong language to warn readers about the other one.
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