http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/chadv/2010/00000011/00000004/art00005
Comparative review by Jeffrey Beall.
Excerpt:
"These publishers are predatory because their mission is not to
promote, preserve, and make available scholarship; instead, their
mission is to exploit the author-pays, Open-Access model for their own profit. They work by spamming scholarly e-mail lists, with calls for papers and invitations to serve on nominal editorial boards. If you subscribe to any professional e-mail lists, you likely have received some of these solicitations. Also, these publishers typically provide little or no peer-review. In fact, in most cases, their peer review process is a façade. None of these publishers mentions digital preservation. Indeed, any of these publishers could disappear at a moment's notice, resulting in the loss of its content..."
These publishers are reviewed:
Academic Journals
Academic Journals, Inc.
ANSINetwork
Dove Press
Insight Knowledge
Knowledgia Review
Libertas Academia
Science Publications
Scientific Journals International
Comparative review by Jeffrey Beall.
Excerpt:
"These publishers are predatory because their mission is not to
promote, preserve, and make available scholarship; instead, their
mission is to exploit the author-pays, Open-Access model for their own profit. They work by spamming scholarly e-mail lists, with calls for papers and invitations to serve on nominal editorial boards. If you subscribe to any professional e-mail lists, you likely have received some of these solicitations. Also, these publishers typically provide little or no peer-review. In fact, in most cases, their peer review process is a façade. None of these publishers mentions digital preservation. Indeed, any of these publishers could disappear at a moment's notice, resulting in the loss of its content..."
These publishers are reviewed:
Academic Journals
Academic Journals, Inc.
ANSINetwork
Dove Press
Insight Knowledge
Knowledgia Review
Libertas Academia
Science Publications
Scientific Journals International
KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 22. April 2010, 14:43 - Rubrik: English Corner