[GOAL] Fwd: [SCHOLCOMM] Backlash against my blog

2012-12-18 Thread Peter Suber
[Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list.  --Peter Suber.]


Colleagues,

** **

I am the author of Scholarly Open Access http://scholarlyoa.com/, a blog
that includes lists of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable
independent journals. 

** **

I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing,
organized attempt to discredit me and my blog. 

** **

Specifically, I've been a victim of email
spoofinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing,
in which someone is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are
not. 

** **

One of the spoofed emails is an offer to reevaluate a publisher's
presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to make it
look like I am extorting money from publishers. 

** **

Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the spoofed
email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An example is
herehttp://editormedicinalchemistry.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/jeffrey-beall-is-blackmailing-small-open-access-publishers-through-his-predatory-publishers-blog/.


** **

Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my work on
various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names of people
prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was in the comments
section of my October *Nature* piece. The publisher has removed these
spurious statements and closed further comments.

** **

I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory
publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list are
true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a criminal way.


** **

I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried to
learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I have
tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not engaged in
any of the activities that they are trying to frame me with.

** **

Thanks for your understanding. 

** **

Jeffrey

** **

Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor

Scholarly Initiatives Librarian
Auraria Library
University of Colorado Denver
1100 Lawrence St.
Denver, Colo.  80204 USA
(303) 556-5936
jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu

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[GOAL] Thank you Jeffrey Beall!

2012-12-18 Thread Heather Morrison
My reaction: thank you, Jeffrey Beall! - both for the important  
service of tracking those predatory open access publishers, and for  
exposing this attempt to discredit you. Bravo!

Further applause on IJPE:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-huge-thank-you-to-jeffrey-beall.html

best,

Heather Morrison, PhD
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com


On 18-Dec-12, at 9:48 AM, Peter Suber wrote:

 [Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list.  --Peter  
 Suber.]


 Colleagues,



 I am the author of Scholarly Open Access, a blog that includes lists  
 of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent  
 journals.



 I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing,  
 organized attempt to discredit me and my blog.



 Specifically, I've been a victim of email spoofing, in which someone  
 is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are not.



 One of the spoofed emails is an offer to reevaluate a publisher's  
 presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to  
 make it look like I am extorting money from publishers.



 Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the  
 spoofed email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An  
 example is here.



 Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my  
 work on various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names  
 of people prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was  
 in the comments section of my October Nature piece. The publisher  
 has removed these spurious statements and closed further comments.



 I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory  
 publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list  
 are true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a  
 criminal way.



 I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried  
 to learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I  
 have tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not  
 engaged in any of the activities that they are trying to frame me  
 with.



 Thanks for your understanding.



 Jeffrey



 Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor

 Scholarly Initiatives Librarian
 Auraria Library
 University of Colorado Denver
 1100 Lawrence St.
 Denver, Colo.  80204 USA
 (303) 556-5936
 jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu



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[GOAL] Re: Thank you Jeffrey Beall!

2012-12-18 Thread Uhlir, Paul
Kudos to Jeffrey Beall, and regrets for the negative spam you have endured. 
Jeffrey, even though it may create some extra traffic for everyone on this 
listserv, may I suggest that you forward at least examples of the offending 
spam attacks, so that we are all well informed and can perhaps help or 
independently evaluate those messages. I realize that I am asking for something 
that everyone may not appreciate nor that may be acceptable to members of this 
list or to the moderator, but nothing serves to expose darkness like light. In 
any case, keep up the good work, despite the efforts to curtail it!

Best wishes,
Paul


From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather 
Morrison [hgmor...@sfu.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 1:19 PM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); scholc...@ala.org T.F.
Cc: SOAF post; BOAI Forum post
Subject: [GOAL]  Thank you Jeffrey Beall!

My reaction: thank you, Jeffrey Beall! - both for the important
service of tracking those predatory open access publishers, and for
exposing this attempt to discredit you. Bravo!

Further applause on IJPE:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-huge-thank-you-to-jeffrey-beall.html

best,

Heather Morrison, PhD
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com


On 18-Dec-12, at 9:48 AM, Peter Suber wrote:

 [Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list.  --Peter
 Suber.]


 Colleagues,



 I am the author of Scholarly Open Access, a blog that includes lists
 of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent
 journals.



 I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing,
 organized attempt to discredit me and my blog.



 Specifically, I've been a victim of email spoofing, in which someone
 is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are not.



 One of the spoofed emails is an offer to reevaluate a publisher's
 presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to
 make it look like I am extorting money from publishers.



 Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the
 spoofed email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An
 example is here.



 Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my
 work on various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names
 of people prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was
 in the comments section of my October Nature piece. The publisher
 has removed these spurious statements and closed further comments.



 I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory
 publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list
 are true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a
 criminal way.



 I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried
 to learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I
 have tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not
 engaged in any of the activities that they are trying to frame me
 with.



 Thanks for your understanding.



 Jeffrey



 Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor

 Scholarly Initiatives Librarian
 Auraria Library
 University of Colorado Denver
 1100 Lawrence St.
 Denver, Colo.  80204 USA
 (303) 556-5936
 jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu



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[GOAL] Fwd: Dark Side of Openness: Identity Theft and Fraudulent Postings By Predatory OA Publishers

2012-12-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
The research community needs to unite to expose, name and shame these
increasingly criminal practices by predatory publishers bent on making a
fast buck by abusing the research community's legitimate desire for open
access (OA) (as well as exploiting some researchers' temptation to get
accepted for publication fast, no matter what the cost or quality).

I cannot omit mentioning that this is yet another symptom of gold fever,
in which researchers mistakenly assume that OA only means publishing their
articles in a gold OA journal (often for a price) and forget about green OA
self-archiving of articles published in subscription journals, and at no
additional cost.

Green OA retains the quality and track-record of established journals, and
needs to come first. If and when universally mandated green OA makes
subscriptions unsustainable, that's the time to for journals to make the
transition to gold OA, maintaining their respective authorships,
readerships, refereeships, and titles, hence their quality and track-record.

The price of pre-emptive gold fever is not just the extra gold OA fees,
over and above what is still being paid for subscriptions that remain
uncancelable until there is universal green OA as an alternative, but, as
we see, the growth of these bottom-feeding junk-journals, purveying fool's
gold.

Jeffrey Beall is performing an invaluable service: Let us all help him by
naming and shaming the false-name-shamers so they don't keep treating the
research community like a community of suckers waiting (and asking) to be
bilked.

Stevan Harnad

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Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:48 PM
Subject: [sparc-oaforum] Fwd: [SCHOLCOMM] Backlash against my blog
To: SOAF post sparc-oafo...@arl.org, BOAI Forum post 
boai-fo...@ecs.soton.ac.uk, GOAL post goal@eprints.org


[Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list.  --Peter Suber.]


Colleagues,

** **

I am the author of Scholarly Open Access http://scholarlyoa.com/, a blog
that includes lists of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable
independent journals. 

** **

I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing,
organized attempt to discredit me and my blog. 

** **

Specifically, I've been a victim of email
spoofinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing,
in which someone is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are
not. 

** **

One of the spoofed emails is an offer to reevaluate a publisher's
presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to make it
look like I am extorting money from publishers. 

** **

Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the spoofed
email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An example is
herehttp://editormedicinalchemistry.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/jeffrey-beall-is-blackmailing-small-open-access-publishers-through-his-predatory-publishers-blog/.


** **

Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my work on
various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names of people
prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was in the comments
section of my October *Nature* piece. The publisher has removed these
spurious statements and closed further comments.

** **

I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory
publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list are
true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a criminal way.


** **

I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried to
learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I have
tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not engaged in
any of the activities that they are trying to frame me with.

** **

Thanks for your understanding. 

** **

Jeffrey

** **

Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor

Scholarly Initiatives Librarian
Auraria Library
University of Colorado Denver
1100 Lawrence St.
Denver, Colo.  80204 USA
(303) 556-5936
jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu

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[GOAL] Future plans for the DOAJ

2012-12-18 Thread Lars Bjørnshauge
The purpose of this communication is to inform about recent changes and
future plans for the development of the Directory of Open Access Journals
(DOAJ).

As communicated here (www.is4oa.org/News.html) Lund University has
facilitated a handover of the responsibility for operating and developing
DOAJ to Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C.  (IS4OA).

IS4OA has been founded by Dr. Alma Swan (convener of EOS , co-founder and
co-owner of Key Perspectives Ltd  and Director SPARC Europe ) and Dr.
Caroline Sutton (founder Co-Action Publishing  and president of OASPA ).

Below we will briefly outline the current plans for improvement and
development of the DOAJ.

*Governance and engaging with the community*

First, we want to engage the community in the governance and in the
development and operations of the DOAJ.

Our company, IS4OA, is set up as a not-for-profit charitable company
limited by guarantee under UK law.

Governance of the DOAJ will be through an Advisory Board comprised of key
individuals from the open access community. The Advisory Board will provide
advice and feedback on the development of the DOAJ. We will as well invite
the broader community to contribute input on priorities and directions.

Our intention is to develop the DOAJ into a significantly improved service
by introducing more functionality and extending the coverage of journals
around the world.  Included in this will be the task of working more
closely with publishers to improve the quality of the information we can
deliver about the journals listed.

The new organisation has engaged Lars Bjørnshauge to manage DOAJ. Lars
founded the DOAJ during his service as Director of Libraries at Lund
University. Agreements regarding hosting, technical operation and
development as well as staff recruitment are in progress.

*Reengineering the editorial work by crowd sourcing*

We intend to change the way the editorial process operates. So far,
editorial work (reviewing and approving journals) has been centralised;
that is, all editorial tasks have been performed by staff located and
employed at Lund University. In recent years, a de-centralised model for
DOAJ has  also been introduced involving agreements with regional/national
collaborators (consortia, etc.) where one or more staff carry out the
initial reviewing of journals from that country or in that language. This
arrangement is already in operation for journals published in France,
Turkey and Greece.

This model will be extended to further countries and regions.  By means of
the concept of the “DOAJ associate librarian” the editorial work (inclusion
and filtering) and translation of the DOAJ-website into additional
languages will essentially be based on a community model (crowd sourced).
In this way, the workload at the central hub will decrease and will develop
more in the direction of management of the community.

*Improved criteria for inclusion in the DOAJ*

In communication with the community we will develop improved criteria for
inclusion in the DOAJ, for instance by aligning criteria with OASPA’s code
of conduct (http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/) and the Open
Access Spectrum (http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/howopenisit_open-review.pdf).


And we will indeed address the issue of publishers not living up to
reasonable standards both in terms of content and of business behavior.

*Improvement and development plan*

We have followed debates closely and will carry out further community and
user consultations to determine what enhancements and improvements should
be made to the DOAJ so that it better serves the needs of the whole
community (funders, sponsors, supporters, publishers, authors and other
users).

Already the information we have gathered has been used to outline an
improvement plan. We will engage more systematically with the community as
we move forward in order to solicit input to future improvements.

Improvements will be in the following areas:

• Improvements in the quality of the records for each journal entry (by
working with and assisting publishers)
• Metadata improvements (journal level and article level)
• Improvements in the search interface, harvesting functionality and system
• Robust long term archiving solution
• Altmetrics

The takeover will take place gradually during January 2013.

We hope you will welcome this new development and will continue to support
DOAJ in 2013 and beyond. We look forward to working with you all in
delivering a service committed to continual improvement over the years to
come.

You can follow the developments on www.doaj.org  www.is4oa.org and on
twitter: @DOAJplus

Kind regards

Lars Bjørnshauge
Managing Director

Alma SwanCaroline Sutton
DirectorDirector
For further information contact
Lars Bjørnshauge
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mobile phone: +45 53 51 06 03

Skype: lbj-lub0603 - twitter: elbjoern0603

e-mail: 

[GOAL] Re: Thank you Jeffrey Beall!

2012-12-18 Thread Beall, Jeffrey
Paul,



Here are a few examples:



*   http://publishopenaccess.blogspot.com/

*   http://antiviralsantiretrovirals.edublogs.org/2012/12/18/omics-blog/

*  
http://editorjccr.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/open-access-publishing-usd-5000-is-enough-to-remove-your-publishers-name-from-bealls-list/



Thank you for your kind words.



Jeffrey Beall



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From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of 
Uhlir, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:49 AM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); scholc...@ala.org T.F.
Cc: SOAF post; BOAI Forum post
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Thank you Jeffrey Beall!



Kudos to Jeffrey Beall, and regrets for the negative spam you have endured. 
Jeffrey, even though it may create some extra traffic for everyone on this 
listserv, may I suggest that you forward at least examples of the offending 
spam attacks, so that we are all well informed and can perhaps help or 
independently evaluate those messages. I realize that I am asking for something 
that everyone may not appreciate nor that may be acceptable to members of this 
list or to the moderator, but nothing serves to expose darkness like light. In 
any case, keep up the good work, despite the efforts to curtail it!



Best wishes,

Paul





From: goal-boun...@eprints.orgmailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org 
[goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison [hgmor...@sfu.ca]

Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 1:19 PM

To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); 
scholc...@ala.orgmailto:scholc...@ala.org T.F.

Cc: SOAF post; BOAI Forum post

Subject: [GOAL]  Thank you Jeffrey Beall!



My reaction: thank you, Jeffrey Beall! - both for the important service of 
tracking those predatory open access publishers, and for exposing this attempt 
to discredit you. Bravo!



Further applause on IJPE:

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-huge-thank-you-to-jeffrey-beall.html



best,



Heather Morrison, PhD

The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com





On 18-Dec-12, at 9:48 AM, Peter Suber wrote:



 [Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list.  --Peter

 Suber.]





 Colleagues,







 I am the author of Scholarly Open Access, a blog that includes lists

 of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent

 journals.







 I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing,

 organized attempt to discredit me and my blog.







 Specifically, I've been a victim of email spoofing, in which someone

 is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are not.







 One of the spoofed emails is an offer to reevaluate a publisher's

 presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to

 make it look like I am extorting money from publishers.







 Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the

 spoofed email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An

 example is here.







 Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my

 work on various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names of

 people prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was in

 the comments section of my October Nature piece. The publisher has

 removed these spurious statements and closed further comments.







 I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory

 publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list

 are true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a

 criminal way.







 I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried to

 learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I have

 tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not engaged

 in any of the activities that they are trying to frame me with.







 Thanks for your understanding.







 Jeffrey







 Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor



 Scholarly Initiatives Librarian

 Auraria Library

 University of Colorado Denver

 1100 Lawrence St.

 Denver, Colo.  80204 USA

 (303) 556-5936

 jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edumailto:jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu







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[GOAL] Re: Fwd: Dark Side of Openness: Identity Theft and Fraudulent Postings By Predatory OA Publishers

2012-12-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
  Stevan Harnad writes

 The research community needs to unite to expose, name and shame these
 increasingly criminal practices by predatory publishers

  I wonder if there is a criterion for when a publisher is predatory.

 bent on making a fast buck by abusing the research community's
 legitimate desire for open access (OA) (as well as exploiting some
 researchers' temptation to get accepted for publication fast, no
 matter what the cost or quality).

  If the aim open access then we should first expose the toll-gated
  publishers who have for many years extraordinary profits from
  material they obtained for free and that was reviewed for them for
  free. Surely the amounts wasted on open access publishing dwarf the
  sum spent on library subscriptions to buy access to articles that
  nobody ever seems to cite, so probably nobody ever reads.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel
  http://authorprofile.org/pkr1
   skype: thomaskrichel
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[GOAL] Re: Further Fallout From Finch Folly

2012-12-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2012-12-18, at 8:26 PM, Roddy Macleod macleod.ro...@gmail.com wrote:

*Editors with publishing and library experience, available to do the
 background work, and backed up with scholarly reviewers - sounds OK to me.
 *


Please support us in our efforts. We need submissions and we need
volunteers to review them in their areas of expertise. Both can be done by
registering with Social Sciences Directory as a User.
http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir/article/view/32/69

(1) Is this what was meant by peer review at Heriot-Watt University?

(2) Is this how Heriot-Watt University would have assessed whether there is
a niche or need for a new peer-reviewed journal?

(3) Is this how Heriot-Watt University would have assessed a new journal's
quality in deciding whether to subscribe to it?

(4) Would Heriot-Watt University consider it OK for journals to be selected
(by authors, subscribers, or members) on the basis of their economic
model rather than their quality?

No question that there are and always were bottom-rung journals among
subscription journals too:

Difference was that they did not have the extra allure of OA and Gold
Fever; they were not subscribed to by institutions if there was no empty
subject  niche they were filling, nor before they had established their
track-records for quality. And journals could not cover their start-up
costs by tempting authors to publish with them by paying for it, again
seasoned with the extra allure of OA and Gold Fever, and perhaps of quick
and easy acceptance for publication.

(Needy start-up subscription journals lowering quality standards to fill
the need for submissions would simply reduce their chances of getting
subscriptions -- but this does not necessarily lower the chances of
tempting needy authors to pay-to-publish in OA start-up  journals -- and
especially before the journal's quality record is established, when all a
fool's gold start-up needs for legitimacy is to wrap itself in the mantle
of OA and righteous indignation against the tyranny of the impact factor
unfairly favouring established journals…)

As I have said many times, institutions are free to part themselves from
their spare money in any way they like. But if they claim they're doing it
for the sake of OA, they had better mandate Green OA (effectively) first --
otherwise  (as long as they are double-paying, over and above their
uncancelable subscriptions) they are in the iron pyrite market. (And
encouraging this, blindly, is one of the perverse effects of Finch Folly.)

Stevan Harnad

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:26 PM, LIBLICENSE liblice...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Roddy Macleod macleod.ro...@gmail.com
 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:56:25 +

 This discussion seems well over the top.

 Editors with publishing and library experience, available to do the
 background work, and backed up with scholarly reviewers - sounds OK to
 me.  The SSD website looks well organised (and a lot better and easier
 to use than some I've seen).  And, for goodness sakes - it's a
 startup!

 Something more relevant to warn against? How about all the 'predatory
 journals' http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ and the 'Criminal
 Impersonation' of faked postings


 http://lisnews.org/listed_predatory_publishers_fight_back_with_criminal_impersonation

 Or the rubbish stuff from some established journal publishers:


 http://roddymacleod.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/rubbish-stuff-from-publishers-6/

 http://roddymacleod.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/journal-publishers-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-i-name-names/

 Roddy MacLeod

 On 18 December 2012 00:08, LIBLICENSE liblice...@gmail.com wrote:

  From: Sandy Thatcher sandy.thatc...@alumni.princeton.edu
  Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:49:22 -0600
 
  Is there a list of these 100 registered reviewers publicly posted
  anywhere?  And why are reviewers registered anyway? Normally, a
  journal goes to find the best reviewer anywhere, not just limit the
  selection to a predetermined list.  For a journal that claims to cover
  all of the social sciences, 100 would seem to be a severely inadequate
  number to draw upon.
 
  Sandy Thatcher
 
 
   From: Dan Scott dan.sc...@socialsciencesdirectory.com
   Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:11:53 +
  
   Stevan:  A correction: as the press release and our editorial policy
   make clear, we carry out a full peer review. We also have over 100
   registered referees.
  
   Dan Scott

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