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 proys...@unl.edu<mailto:proys...@unl.edu> http://digitalcommons.unl.edu From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Danny Kingsley Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 9:37 AM To: ukcorr-discuss...@jiscmail.ac.uk; goal@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 dissertati...@journalsconsortium.org<mailto:dissertati...@journalsconsortium.org> http://journalsconsortium.org/ [2] Links: ------ [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 -- Dr Danny Kingsley Head of Scholarly Communications Cambridge University Library West Road, Cambridge CB39DR P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437 M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564 E: da...@cam.ac.uk<mailto:da...@cam.ac.uk> T: @dannykay68 ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939
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