I would worry about this Peter Burnhill Director, EDINA University of Edinburgh
Desk: +44 (0) 131 650 3301 Text: +44 (0) 7740 763119 > On 6 Aug 2015, at 12:36 pm, Danny Kingsley <da...@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 > > 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 > T: @dannykay68 > ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939 > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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