On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:55:55 -0800, Miguel Roig wrote:
I shared the following with my department colleagues:
Have you ever received an invitation to be an editorial board member,
present or publish your work in a newly minted open-access journal
or be a guest speaker at international conference where you can
showcase your latest research? There is an interesting discussion in
another list about these phony journals or so-called "predatory publishers"
and someone posted a link to a site which keeps track of them:
http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/ .
Right now only a few of the journals are in the social sciences, but given
the
rapid proliferation of these types of for-profit entities, more journals in
psychology and other disciplines will start to show up in coming years or
even
months.
I've received requests for participation in conferences from unfamiliar
organizations and requests for submission of manuscripts on psychological
research from well-known publishers, such as Sage, which has a
special price for submission for a short time; see:
http://sgo.sagepub.com/
and APA has announced an open journal to be published in 2013; see:
http://www.apa.org/pubs/newsletters/access/2012/08-21/first-journal.aspx
If the "open" journals are as rigorous as regular journals, then it will
still be difficult to get crappy research published which raises the
question of "why bother?" I assume that if one has difficulty in get
a manuscript published in a "top tier" journal, one would try one of
the "pay per page" journals where one is more likely to be accepted,
even if there is "peer review" (the issue being whether the peer review
associated with these journals are of the same quality as the reviewers
in the top journals).
It is good to know that there are "must to avoid" journals for two reasons:
(1) avoiding publishing in them and (2) critically evaluating articles from
such journals that students might get and want it to serve as the basis
for research or other activities.
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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