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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? <BR>
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How many implicit forms of racism or cultural arrogance are hidden in such a perspective? <BR>
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Jean-Claude Guédon<BR>
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Le mardi 25 mars 2014 à 17:42 -0600, Beall, Jeffrey a écrit :
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Danny,<BR>
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I have been monitoring this publisher closely recently. I regularly receive inquiries about it -- researchers asking me whether it is predatory or not. <BR>
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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). <BR>
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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.)<BR>
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Ivyspring until recently said it was based in Wyoming, NSW. Now they've changed their official address to this:<BR>
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Ivyspring International Publisher Pty Ltd<BR>
Level 32, 1 Market Street<BR>
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That address matches the address of <A HREF="http://www.abcn.com/offices-sydney--level-32-1-market-street-3264">Alliance Business Centers</A>, a virtual office company. Also, according to an Australian business directory, the publisher's owner is Jinxin Jason Lin.<BR>
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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?<BR>
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<B>From:</B> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Danny Kingsley<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 24, 2014 10:46 PM<BR>
<B>To:</B> 'goal@eprints.org'<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> [GOAL] Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed as 'Australian'<BR>
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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.<BR>
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However on investigation seven of these 12 do not appear to be Australian journals at all.<BR>
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There is no definitive list of Australian OA journals – the AOASG page <A HREF="http://aoasg.org.au/open-access-in-action/australian-oa-journals/">http://aoasg.org.au/open-access-in-action/australian-oa-journals/</A> 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.<BR>
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My questions are:<BR>
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· Does anyone know why these journals would be appearing on DOAJ as ‘Australian’? <BR>
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· Five of them are published by Ivyspring International Publishers – does anyone know anything about this publisher?<BR>
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<I><A HREF="http://www.jgenomics.com/">Journal of Genomics</A></I><BR>
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Ivyspring International Publisher<BR>
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No publication charge during the current promotional period of this journal<BR>
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Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the Editorial Board.<BR>
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<I><A HREF="http://www.thno.org/">Theranostics</A></I><BR>
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Ivyspring International Publisher<BR>
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$100AUD<BR>
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Not published in Australia and there are no Australians listed in the Editorial Board<BR>
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<I><A HREF="http://www.irphouse.com/elect/ijece.htm">International Journal of Electronics, Engineering and Computer Systems</A></I><BR>
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International Research Publication House<BR>
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Not published in Australia and there are no Australians listed in the Editorial Board<BR>
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<I><A HREF="http://scialert.net/current.php?issn=1994-7879">Asian Journal of Crop Science</A></I><BR>
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Asian Network for Scientific Information<BR>
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$370AUD<BR>
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There is no direct website for the journal and it is difficult to determine the countries the Editorial Board come from<BR>
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<I><A HREF="http://www.jcancer.org/">Journal of Cancer</A></I><BR>
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$1100AUD<BR>
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Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the Editorial Board.<BR>
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<I><A HREF="http://www.ijbs.com/">International Journal of Biological Sciences</A></I><BR>
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Ivyspring International Publisher<BR>
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$1450AUD<BR>
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Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the Editorial Board.<BR>
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<I><A HREF="http://www.medsci.org/">International Journal of Medical Sciences</A></I> <BR>
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Ivyspring International Publisher<BR>
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$1450AUD<BR>
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Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the Editorial Board.<BR>
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<B>Dr Danny Kingsley</B><BR>
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E: <A HREF="mailto:danny.kingsley@anu.edu.au">danny.kingsley@anu.edu.au</A><BR>
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NOTE: I work three days a week: Mondays (on campus), Tuesdays and Thursdays. I think about open access 24/7.<BR>
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