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New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles
Here be dragons. Recently launched, and with 66 brand-new journals, Horizon Research Publishing Corporation carefully hides its headquarters location on its website. The “contact us” page does not list...
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The Serials Crisis is Over.
Quotations about the serials crisis (below). I declare that the serials crisis, the event that gave birth to the open-access movement, is over. I base my declaration on my observations as an academic...
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Another Questionable Publisher Emerges from Canada
One of many in Canada. We recently learned about the Canadian Science and Technology Press Inc. a scholarly publisher with six brand-new scholarly journals. The journal lists an address in the Toronto,...
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“Please add my journal to your list”
I’m happy to add this to my list, sure. I regularly receive emails from new open-access publishers asking me to add their publisher or journal to one of my lists. My lists include publishers and...
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More Controversy Over Open-Access Publisher MDPI
Disorder in Switzerland? Entropy is an open-access journal published by MDPI, the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, based in Basel, Switzerland. The journals were formerly published by...
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Did OMICS Publishing Group’s Owner, Srinubabu Gedela, Commit Plagiarism?
Unoriginal, unattributed text inside. Srinubabu Gedela, the owner of India-based OMICS Publishing Group, authored a chapter in the book Bioinformatics for Omics Data: Methods and Protocols, published...
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Hawaiian Publisher Caters to Latin American Scholars
Aloha? Adios! Based in Hilo, Hawaii, the Institute for Business and Finance Research publishes eight business journals and organizes a regularly-occurring conference called Global Conference for...
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The “Open Research Network” Launches with 86 New OA Journals
“The most exciting researches … “ The Open Research Network is a brand-new, open-access publisher with 86 journals in its fleet. The publisher developed a very interesting method of coming up with the...
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New OA Publisher Boasts It’s the “Most Innovative Online Scientific Archive”
No innovation whatsoever. Science Web Publishing’s tag line is “The most innovative online scientific archive.” There’s a big problem with this statement, however. The problem is that the publisher...
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OA Publisher Recent Science Launches with 38 Journals
Researchers beware. I recently discovered a new publisher called Recent Science, a scholarly publisher with 38 journals in its portfolio, some of which duplicate other publishers’ titles. According to...
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Another Fleet Startup: JSciMed Central
32 Brand-New Journals! Another recent, large fleet startup is JSciMed Central, launching with 32 journals. The publisher purports to be located at 16192 Coastal Highway in Lewes, Delaware, but that’s...
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OA Publisher Launches with over 350 New Journals
An ambitious new venture. The International Journal Network is a new, open-access publisher that includes over 350 journals in its portfolio. The publisher’s main page lists San Francisco as its...
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New OA Publisher with a Strange Name: iProbe
iProbe What an odd name for a scholarly publisher: iProbe. It sounds like the name of an Apple app for endoscopic surgeons. Here is my probe of iProbe. The name is not the only strange thing about this...
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JScholar: A New OA Publisher from Frisco, Texas
Let us help your English to write. JScholar is a newly-launched publisher that purports to be based in Frisco, Texas. This publisher stands out for its salient misuse of the English language. If you’re...
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OMICS Creates Ghost Brands to Attract New Authors
e-Medical Central Hyderabad, India-based OMICS Publishing Group has set up new websites with different brand names that all try to lure potential authors into submitting papers to one or more of OMICS’...
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Publisher’s Journals Boast Amazingly High Impact Factors
Their logo The International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA) is a publisher and conference organizer whose scholarly journals claim some of the highest impact factors in the...
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Presenting “Leena and Luna,” a Questionable Publisher from Japan
Used cars, too. Leena & Luna International is an auto import-export company based in Oyama, Japan that has a couple of side-businesses: travel agent and scholarly publisher. The company’s website...
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Savvy Science Publisher Not So Savvy
Should be called “Amateurish Science Publisher” The word savvy in English, according to Wictionary, means “shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.” The term is informal, so I am surprised to see it being...
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KY Publications — A Slimy New OA Publisher from India
The KY Publications CEO, Medikondu Kishore, sitting back and waiting for the easy money to roll in. We recently discovered KY Publications, a new open-access publisher based in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh,...
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Avestia Publishing: A New Bottom-Tier Publisher from Canada
Their spam is coming soon to an inbox near you. Avestia, a publisher that sounds like an allergy medicine, recently launched with 23 new open-access journals. Beware of the side effects of this new...
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