Open-Access Publisher Offers Free Kindle for Every Submission

Free Kindle Paperwhite with every article submission!

Open-access publisher IORE International is offering authors a free Kindle Paperwhite for every paper they submit to one of the publisher’s eleven journals.

IORE International claims to be based in an office in London’s Canary Wharf, a claim I doubt. A spam email from the publisher soliciting new editorial board members is signed “Caroline Watson,” a name I suspect is contrived. I don’t know the publisher’s true headquarters location.

Scholarly Publishing gimmick

The publisher’s journals all are broad in scope and cover fields already saturated with open-access journals. At the time of this writing, none of the journals has any editorial board members listed, so the publishing process ought to be fast and easy.

They are accepting submissions, but all the editorial boards are empty.

I suspect that all the pictures used on the website and on the journal cover images are pirated. Like the pictures on other low-quality, OA publisher websites, the ones here have distorted aspect ratios, a sign of sloppy work.

I strongly doubt that this publisher will make good on its free Kindle offer. It’s sad that gold open-access is now resorting to such debased marketing techniques.

Hat tip: Dr. Elisabeth Bik

Appendix: List of IORE International journals as of 2015-06-19

1. e Journal of Gastroenterology
2. Iore Journal of Addiction & Therapy
3. Iore Journal of Agro and Crop Science
4. Iore Journal of Bioinformatics and computational Biology
5. Iore Journal of Cancer
6. Iore journal of Environmental Science
7. Iore Journal of Genetics
8. Iore Journal of Microbiology
9. Journal of Diabetic Research
10. Journal of Food and Nutrition
11. Journal of Immunology