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

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

Beall's remark about the importance of the country where a publication
is located, if he is right, fully demonstrates how stupid the evaluation
process has become. The next step, I suppose, is to create a ranking of
countries and thus establish their status with regard to scientific
publishing. It also leads to really weird forms of reasoning such as: a
press in Brazil, or India, or China, or Russia, is obviously not as good
as a press in the US, in Britain, in Holland, etc... What about Italy?
Greece? Portugal? What about Mexico? What about South Africa? What about
the rest of Africa? Is Australia OK? 

How many implicit forms of racism or cultural arrogance are hidden in
such a perspective? 
 
Jean-Claude Guédon




Le mardi 25 mars 2014 à 17:42 -0600, Beall, Jeffrey a écrit :
> 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, 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
> 
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> 
> 
> 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
> 
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> 
>  
> 
> Journal
> 
> 
> Publisher
> 
> 
> APC
> 
> 
> Notes
> 
> 
> Journal of
> Genomics
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> International
> Research
> Publication House
> 
> 
> $150USD
> 
> 
> Not published in
> Australia and
> there are no
> Australians
> listed in the
> Editorial Board
> 
> 
> Asian Journal of
> Crop Science
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> Ivyspring
> International
> Publisher
> 
> 
> $1100AUD
> 
> 
> Not published in
> Australia and
> only one
> Australian listed
> in the Editorial
> Board.
> 
> 
> International
> Journal of
> Biological
> Sciences
> 
> 
> Ivyspring
> International
> Publisher
> 
> 
> $1450AUD
> 
> 
> Not published in
> Australia and
> only two
> Australians
> listed in the
> Editorial Board.
> 
> 
> International
> Journal of
> Medical Sciences 
> 
> 
> Ivyspring
> International
> Publisher
> 
> 
> $1450AUD
> 
> 
> Not published in
> Australia and
> only two
> Australians
> listed in the
> Editorial Board.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
> Dr Danny Kingsley
> 
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> Executive Officer 
> 
> Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG)
> 
> Menzies Library, Building 2
> 
> The Australian National University
> 
> Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
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>  
> 
> E: danny.kingsley at anu.edu.au
> 
> P: +612 6125 6839
> 
> W: http://aoasg.org.au
> 
> T: @openaccess_oz
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> Thursdays. I think about open access 24/7.
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Jean-Claude Guédon
Professeur titulaire
Littérature comparée
Université de Montréal

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