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Welcome to Journals Club !
Want to join the club ? Competition among open-access publishers is getting stronger and stronger. To survive, these publishers must invent new ways to stand out and attract more author fees from...
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Open-Access Publisher Sends Extremely Annoying Spam Emails
Worst of the worst … ClinMed International Library is an open-access publisher of 16 medical journals. This publisher stands out for the extremely poor use of language on its website and in its spam...
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New Predatory Publisher Copies Look and Feel of BioMed Central
The impostor (top) and the victim (bottom). BioMed Research is a brand-new open-access publisher based in India that recently launched with 21 open-access journals. The publisher copies the look, feel...
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Another OA Publisher Launches with 96 New Journals
96 journals ready and waiting. I have another large “fleet launch” of journals to report: Academia Research, based somewhere. The publisher launched recently with 96 brand new scholarly journals, most...
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Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue
APCs create a digital divide. Article Processing Charges (APCs) are the fees charged to authors upon acceptance of their papers in gold (author pays) open-access journals, and authors are getting tired...
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OA Publisher Disappears from Internet, Goes Out of Business
Long gone … You spend a couple years carrying out some research, another year writing it up, and then you submit your research manuscript to an open-access publisher. It’s accepted, you pay the article...
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An Editorial Board Mass-Resignation — from an Open-Access Journal
Backward advance. I learned recently of a mass-resignation from the editorial board of an open-access journal. The journal, Advances in Anthropology, is published by the troubled publisher Scientific...
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OA Medical Journal Publishes Terrible Poem about Colitis
Is this picture pirated? The International Journal of Medical Science Research and Practice (IJMSRP) is a new medical mega-journal that is probably published out of India, though the “contact us” page...
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Ridiculous OA Journal Launches with Ridiculous Title
British what? The world’s newest open-access journal is the Integrated Journal of British (IJBRITISH). If the journal’s name strikes you as strange, that’s because it is strange, just like the...
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Two Agriculture Journals Share the Same Title
The original, respected journal. As the surge of open-access journals continues, we are seeing more cases of journal title duplication. Here’s a case in which a one-man, Toronto-based OA outfit...
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Spam Email from Questionable Journal Provides Comic Relief
Proof that anyone can be a scholarly publisher. The American Based Research Journal, which claims to be based in the UK, is providing researchers with some much needed comic relief by sending out a...
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Shabby Indian Management Megajournal Reveals Its Peer Review Process
Poor management. The International Journal of Management Research and Review (IJMRR) is typical of the many low-quality and deceptive megajournals that are started up in India every week. This one...
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New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts
Thoughtless. American Research thoughts is a new open-access journal published by a Romanian-Indian team of two people. The title American Research Thoughts is not suitable for a professional scholarly...
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Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science
Pseudo-scholar Google Scholar is the world’s largest and most-used academic search engine, yet it is increasingly becoming polluted with junk science, making it a potentially dangerous database for...
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New Open-Access Oncology Journal Has Big Ambitions
Not off to a good start. The brand-new mega oncology journal Cancer Research Frontiers is in the process of launching. It is not associated with Nature Publishing Group’s open-access imprint Frontiers,...
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An Open-Access Publisher You Can See Through: Pyrex Journals
Cracked ? One of the newest scholarly open-access publishers is Pyrex Journals. It launched recently with ten broad-scoped journals. And it has a twin. Although the publisher’s “contact us” page does...
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Open-Access Medical Publisher Has Contradictory Journal
Scholarly hypoxia is more like it. Scholoxy is an India-based scholarly publisher of six medical journals. The publisher is a massive spammer, and it includes a medical journal with an unscientific...
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Open-Access Physics Journal Accommodates Authors Blacklisted from arXiv
Dark matter. Progress in Physics is an open-access journal that publishes articles unsuitable for mainstream physics journals. Among other roles, it provides desperate authors, some of whom have been...
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The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing...
AIDS Denialism Another day, another report of a junk science article published by China-based publisher Scientific Research Publishing, or SCIRP. This publisher specializes in publishing junk cosmology...
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The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding
Accelerating profits OMICS Group, the Hyderabad, India-based group of scholarly publishing-related companies, is expanding and now operates at least twelve publishing imprints (brands), as well as a...
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