[Air-l] CITSA 2006

Thu Jan 19 08:07:15 PST 2006

Brenda and all,
 I did the same, and since the entire issue started to seem pretty bizarre,
I wanted to give them the opportunity to explain their position in this
matter (apparently, there is an "Indian Institute of Technology" behind as
well....)
Jeremy, I do not entirely understand why you mention "Let us take a moment
to consider your journal". It is not my journal, I'm not part of the
editorial board and I have never published there. On the other hand it is
true that I received the call for papers and circulated it to the list.
Thus, in any case, I feel bad because I have contributed to circulate
conference spam as Elijah named them. 
I still keep a slight hope that someone from the editorial board will
explain their position. At this point everything indicates that they are not
trustworthy. 
HGZ

Homero Gil de Zuniga

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De: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org]
En nombre de blb at buffalo.edu
Enviado el: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:25 AM
Para: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Asunto: Re: [Air-l] CITSA 2006

A note from a librarian...

I searched OCLC (WorldCat), which is the central bibliographic database of 
catalog records for libraries and found no record for Journal of Systemics 
Cybernetics and Informatics. This is pretty significant, since this is the 
database that records the journal holdings of most libraries. In many 
instances, new journals have catalog records before the first issue is 
published yet there is no record for this journal, despite the fact that it 
has an ISSN.

And speaking of ISSN, "Ulrichs," the largest directory of periodicals and 
journals, does not list this title or ISSN.

This throws up red flags to any librarian evaluating a journal for 
selection which is why, I suspect, no one has bothered to catalog Journal 
of Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics or add it to their collection.

-Brenda

-- 
Brenda L. Battleson
Head, Print Periodicals/Serials
University at Buffalo
Acquisitions Dept.
134 Lockwood Library
Buffalo, NY 14260-2210
Ph. 716.645.2305
Fax 716.645.5955

--On Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:08 AM -0500 Jeremy Hunsinger 
<jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:

> Personally, If i were you, I'd resign from that journal's board
> before you end up on someone's  blacklist like http://www.anti-
> plagiarism.org/  . The accusations about several of these conferences
> seem to be very real.  They are for-profit machines.  You submit a
> paper, you pay the registration, someone gets a percentage  of that
> registration, and everyone is happy.  They admittedly have little or
> no peer review, and they accept randomly generated papers.   Let us
> take a moment to consider your journal.
>
> it is hosted by  International Institute of Informatics and
> Cybernetics  which does not seem to exist except to host your journal
> and several of the conferences listed on the list that Alex posted
> and the blacklist above.
> it is edited by the two people directly implicated in the conference
> which led to this scandal:http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/blog/
>
> so then, what is the content of this journal?  who sits on the
> editorial board?  where have they published?  where does this journal
> rank in isi?   what do subject area librarians think of this
> journal?  ask around and see, ask your advisor or dept. head about
> this journal, then tell them about the blacklist and the scandal, and
> see what they say.   my advice would be to distance yourself from
> this enterprise.
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2006, at 12:50 AM, Homero Gil de Zuniga wrote:
>
>>
>> Maybe someone in the editorial board would like to take the time to
>> reply to
>> the AoIR list about this accusation...
>> PS. Please note that this e-mail is being sent to both the AoIR
>> list and the
>> editorial board of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and
>> Informatics
>> with ISSN: 1690-4524
>> HGZ
>>
>> Let's see if someone clarifies this!!!  :-)
>>
>
> jeremy hunsinger
> jhuns at vt.edu
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