[GOAL] Re: Need for a new beginning

2015-10-02 Thread Éric Archambault
Jeffrey Fairly straightforward: 1. None, and from neither of the for profit companies I preside (though for full disclosure I'd really hope they'd be more profitable but just as the other shareholder, I do prefer treating clients and employees generously and this weighs heavily in the balance)

[GOAL] Re: Need for a new beginning

2015-10-02 Thread Beall, Jeffrey
Eric: I have two questions. 1. For the record, does your for-profit business or do you personally have any business relationship with any of the publishers or journals on my lists? If so, which ones? 2. In your email you refer to a recently-published article, and you name and discuss the seco

[GOAL] Need for a new beginning

2015-10-02 Thread Éric Archambault
Dear list members: What started as a one-man, useful list that identified “Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers”, which Jeffrey himself further qualifies as a “list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers”, has now overshot its usefulness. We need

[GOAL] Another, totally free, electronic journal from Turkey

2015-10-02 Thread Barbaros Akkurt
Hello, I have seen reports about cost-effective journal projects in this communication, so I decided to tell you about three open access (Open Journal Systems) journal efforts of mine. 1) Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society, Section A: Chemistry (active for two years, accepting articles abo

[GOAL] Re: A new high level peered review journal at nearly zero cost by Tim Gowers

2015-10-02 Thread Laurent Romary
Since advertising has started, let me mention that the CCSD inFrance has developed an overlay journal platform that would exactly do the trick here: Episciences.org See the ELPUB paper: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01002815 Laurent > Le 2 oct. 2015 à 11:52, Raf Dekeyser a écrit : > > Dear all, >

[GOAL] Re: A new high level peered review journal at nearly zero cost by Tim Gowers

2015-10-02 Thread Raf Dekeyser
Dear all, Do these people realize that there is a free alternative for managing the peer review system: the Open Journal System (OJS)? It is easy to install, and you do not have to use it for the final publication of the papers: just use the peer review management part of it! Raf Dekeyser LIB