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

[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, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.  You also grant to Journals Consortium the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.


Paul Royster
Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, UNL Libraries
proyster at unl.edu<mailto:proyster at unl.edu>
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Danny Kingsley
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 9:37 AM
To: UKCORR-DISCUSSION at JISCMAIL.AC.UK; goal at eprints.org
Subject: [GOAL] Journals Consortium Archive - dodgy or legit?

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. This raises some suspicions (to say the least).

But before I respond with a loud warning to the student I would like to check that this is not some new start up that is legitimate. Please let me know if you have had a positive experience with these people.

Regards

Danny

INTRODUCING ARCHIVE OF POSTGRADUATE DISSERTATIONS

Dear Dr. XXXX,

We are glad to introduce to you the Journals Consortium Archive of
Postgraduate Dissertations [1].

Postgraduate thesis/dissertations are resources of immense research
value across academic disciplines. Unfortunately, most
thesis/dissertations tend to be restricted to university libraries and
archives.

Journals Consortium Postgraduate Archive
http://pgd.journalsconsortium.org/ [1] provides a new and exciting way
of digitally archiving postgraduate thesis/dissertations. This enables
postgraduate students to archive their thesis/dissertations by uploading
them to the Journals Consortium Postgraduate Archive platform. This not
only extend these thesis/dissertations work from university libraries to
the global academic community, but also gives them a global audience and
better chances for these thesis/dissertations to be cited by other
researchers.

Using the Open Access model, these thesis /dissertations will be freely
available to all researchers by simply visiting the Journals Consortium
Postgraduate Archive website [1].

Please inform your colleagues and students of this archive and encourage
them to submit their postgraduate theses/dissertations.

Yours sincerely,

Postgraduate Dissertations Department

Journals Consortium

dissertations at journalsconsortium.org<mailto:dissertations at journalsconsortium.org>

http://journalsconsortium.org/ [2]

Links:
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[1]
http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=31&mailid=22
[2]
http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=13&mailid=22
[3]
http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=14&mailid=22
[4]
http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=15&mailid=22
[5]
http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=16&mailid=22
[6]
http://msl.journalsconsortium.org/index.php?subid=391656&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=user&task=out&mailid=22&key=KIJRuBvw8UYM9L






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