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

[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/

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

I would worry about this

Peter Burnhill
Director, EDINA
University of Edinburgh

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On 6 Aug 2015, at 12:36 pm, Danny Kingsley <dak45 at cam.ac.uk<mailto:dak45 at cam.ac.uk>> wrote:

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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