[Re-posted from Andrew K. Ho, "Digital & Scholarly"] Jeffrey Beall has written a review on nine "predatory" open access scholarly publishers in the Charleston Advisor. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/chadv/2010/00000011/00000004/art00005
>From the critical evaluation section of the review: "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..." [ See Also http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/12/open-access-in-2009-good-bad-and-ugly.html & http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/432-guid.html ] ========== This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to The SPARC Open Access Forum. To post, send your message to <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, email to <[email protected]>. To switch to digest mode, email to <[email protected]>. To switch to index mode, email to <[email protected]>. Send administrative queries to <[email protected]>.
