[GOAL] Re: Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed as 'Australian'

[Beall, Jeffrey]

Danny,

I have been monitoring this publisher closely recently. I regularly receive inquiries about it -- researchers asking me whether it is predatory or not.

I currently do not have it included on the list of predatory publishers. Contrary to an opinion expressed earlier, for many, the country of publication is very important. Researchers in many countries get more academic credit towards tenure, promotion, and the annual evaluation when they publish in a journal based in a western country. (This is why many predatory publishers often pretend to be from western countries).

I recently posted an inquiry on this list seeking comments about this company's peer-review portability policy (it allows authors themselves to transfer peer reviews from the rejecting publisher to Ivyspring.)

Ivyspring until recently said it was based in Wyoming, NSW. Now they've changed their official address to this:

Ivyspring International Publisher Pty Ltd
Level 32, 1 Market Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Australia

That address matches the address of Alliance Business Centers<http://www.abcn.com/offices-sydney--level-32-1-market-street-3264>, a virtual office company. Also, according to an Australian business directory, the publisher's owner is Jinxin Jason Lin.

I think it's safe to say this company lacks needed transparency. Who owns it? Where are they based? What experience do the owners have with scholarly publishing? Why are they using a virtual office as their headquarters address? What is the extent of this company's connection to Australia? To other countries?

--Jeffrey Beall

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Danny Kingsley
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 10:46 PM
To: 'goal at eprints.org'
Subject: [GOAL] Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed as 'Australian'

Hello all,

I recently looked at the DOAJ list of Australian journals to determine how many Australian OA journals charge an APC. Of the list of 115 journals on the DOAJ, 12 charge an APC.

However on investigation seven of these 12 do not appear to be Australian journals at all.

There is no definitive list of Australian OA journals - the AOASG page http://aoasg.org.au/open-access-in-action/australian-oa-journals/ lists 150  (compared to the smaller DOAJ list) and before I investigated this it did not include the five genuinely OA Australian journals that charge an APC.

My questions are:

*       Does anyone know why these journals would be appearing on DOAJ as 'Australian'?

*       Five of them are published by Ivyspring International Publishers - does anyone know anything about this publisher?

Thanks

Danny


Journal

Publisher

APC

Notes

Journal of Genomics<http://www.jgenomics.com/>

Ivyspring International Publisher

No publication charge during the current promotional period of this journal

Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the Editorial Board.

Theranostics<http://www.thno.org/>

Ivyspring International Publisher

$100AUD

Not published in Australia and there are no Australians listed in the Editorial Board

International Journal of Electronics, Engineering and Computer Systems<http://www.irphouse.com/elect/ijece.htm>

International Research Publication House

$150USD

Not published in Australia and there are no Australians listed in the Editorial Board

Asian Journal of Crop Science<http://scialert.net/current.php?issn=1994-7879>

Asian Network for Scientific Information

$370AUD

There is no direct website for the journal and it is difficult to determine the countries the Editorial Board come from

Journal of Cancer<http://www.jcancer.org/>

Ivyspring International Publisher

$1100AUD

Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the Editorial Board.

International Journal of Biological Sciences<http://www.ijbs.com/>

Ivyspring International Publisher

$1450AUD

Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the Editorial Board.

International Journal of Medical Sciences<http://www.medsci.org/>

Ivyspring International Publisher

$1450AUD

Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the Editorial Board.




Dr Danny Kingsley
------------------------------------------
Executive Officer
Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG)
Menzies Library, Building 2
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia

E: danny.kingsley at anu.edu.au<mailto:danny.kingsley at anu.edu.au>
P: +612 6125 6839
W: http://aoasg.org.au
T: @openaccess_oz

Cricos Provider - 00120C

NOTE: I work three days a week: Mondays (on campus), Tuesdays and Thursdays. I think about open access 24/7.



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20140325/8578ee4f/attachment-0001.html