Champaign, Illinois-Based Open-Access Publisher Launches with 22 Journals

Open-access publishing finally comes to Champaign.

West Green Street in Champaign, Illinois seems an unlikely location for the headquarters of a scholarly publisher with 22 open-access journals in its portfolio. However, that’s the listed headquarters location — 674 West Green Street to be exact — of the new scholarly publisher Rutveg Publishing, Inc. The address corresponds to a dwelling in what appears to be a quiet, residential neighborhood.

Many folks in the Champaign area have long been ardent, vocal advocates of open-access publishing, so I am certain they’ll be delighted to learn that an open-access publisher has established itself in one of the city’s fine neighborhoods.

I’m sure they will quickly gather up any loose manuscripts on their desks and submit them to West Green Street, along with $700 for the author fee, where the papers will be quickly published. I’m sure all the progressive academic librarians in Champaign will praise this locally-sourced, indigenous initiative.

I’m uncertain whether the West Green Street area is zoned for scholarly publishers, but it seems likely the city will rush through any needed variance, given this local company’s noble cause — free access to research.

The term Rutveg is not explained on the website, but a Google search informs me the term is a boy’s given name, popular in India.

Champaign, Illinois, open-access powerhouse.

A spam email sent out by this publisher and recently forwarded to me proclaimed:

Note : Rutveg Publishing Inc. and Its Journals is not listed by “Jeffrey Beall” in Beall List. Because our journals are highly reputed. For clarification visit this blog at http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

While this statement was true as recently as August 6, 2015, I can tell you that it is no longer true. I’ve added Rutveg to my list.

So, there goes the neighborhood.

Appendix: List of Rutveg Publishing, Inc. journals as of 2015-08-08:

1. Advances in Agricultural Research
2. Advances in Geology Research
3. Advances in Medicine Research
4. Advances in Orthopedics Research
5. Journal of Advances in Bioinformatics Research
6. Journal of Advances in Civil Engineering
7. Journal of Biodiversity Research
8. Journal of Computational Engineering Research
9. Journal of Ecology Research
10. Journal of Energy Research
11. Journal of Language Research
12. Journal of Obesity Research
13. Journal of Oncology Research
14. Journal of Operators Research
15. Journal of Ophthalmology Research
16. Journal of Oral Diseases Research
17. Journal of Plant Genomics Research
18. Journal of Remote Sensing, Earth Science and GIS
19. Journal of Veterinary Research
20. Journal of Zoology Research
21. Reports in Medicine
22. Reports in Surgery