[GOAL] Re: Journals Consortium Archive - dodgy or legit?

2015-08-06 Thread Peter Burnhill
I would worry about this Peter Burnhill Director, EDINA University of Edinburgh Desk: +44 (0) 131 650 3301 Text: +44 (0) 7740 763119 On 6 Aug 2015, at 12:36 pm, Danny Kingsley da...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Hello all, One of our PhD students has received an offer to upload their thesis to

[GOAL] Re: Journals Consortium Archive - dodgy or legit?

2015-08-06 Thread Seb Schmoller
I would worry about this Peter Burnhill Director, EDINA University of Edinburgh So would I: https://who.is/whois/https://journalsconsortium.org indicates the country in which the domain has been registered and the non-organisational email address associated with it. Seb Schmoller

[GOAL] Re: Journals Consortium Archive - dodgy or legit?

2015-08-06 Thread Dana Roth
The journals listed on the 'journalconsortium' webpage are published by 'Academic Journals' ... which is listed on Beall's List: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Dana L. Roth Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540

[GOAL] Re: Journals Consortium Archive - dodgy or legit?

2015-08-06 Thread Paul Royster
Dodgy, in my view. I believe there are fees to submit. Moreover, the host company takes a permanent license to re-publish and re-distribute. Their terms say http://journalsconsortium.org/terms_and_conditions : You grant to Journals Consortium a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive,

[GOAL] Journals Consortium Archive - dodgy or legit?

2015-08-06 Thread Danny Kingsley
Hello all, One of our PhD students has received an offer to upload their thesis to something called the 'Journals Consortium Archive' http://journalsconsortium.org/ I have never heard of them, the 'About us' tab is a file not found and there is no information yet about Australia or the UK.