[Air-L] IROCS Journals : Call For Papers

Thu Apr 11 10:44:54 PDT 2013

Daren,

You should know that the non-commercial open access journals also need some
form of financial support (a stable business model).  My understanding is
that various of these journals currently rely on various forms of donations
-- in some cases corporate, in others local universities (who have the
resources to provide this support) and other... But a lot of open access
journals are currently hitting a financial wall in that their source of
voluntary labour and non-recurrent contributions are drying up and in the
absence of appropriate funding models there are problems, at least on the
horizon.

Pay-to-publish (pay to play) is almost certainly not an appropriate way to
go for a variety of reasons, but nor IMHO is a situation wihere there are
publishing opportunities only for those with wealthy (and potentially
self-interested ?) benefactors.

Research grants in some cases now have provision for dissemination which
IMHO could/should be linked to OA publishing and most importantly some
provision needs to be developed to steer the funds that are currently going
to over-priced commercial "free" publishing journals towards "free"
publishing non-commercial OA journals. 

How to establish the relative value of individual journals in the midst of
what appears to be a major onslaught of bad money chasing good (as in this
instance) is something that will need to be addressed and quite quickly I
believe if scholarly/research publishing as we have known it up to now is to
survive. (And that of course, belies the question of whether such an
approach to research dissemination is the most useful one in the longer term
in any case, as a number of experiments currently underway are putting into
question.)

M

Michael Gurstein, Ph.D.
Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics
web: http://ci-journal.net
email: gurstein at gmail.com

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A scam? Absolutely. If you get that feeling from a 2-minute glance of their
site, then your hunch is right.

In my opinion, never a need to pay-to-publish in an academic journal. There
are tons of legitimate options out there in our field (all the usual
suspects). And if you're craving a good open access journal, there's always
First Monday, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Game Studies,
International Journal of Internet Science, International Journal of
Communication, etc. etc. etc. If your article is worth publishing, you
shouldn't have to pay to do so!

db

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"Title-squatting"--I like it. The NYT article on predatory open access
journals talked a bit about this phenomenon.

JM
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On Apr 11, 2013, at 11:59 AM, "Richard Forno"
<rforno at infowarrior.org<mailto:rforno at infowarrior.org>> wrote:

A quick spot-check of some of their journal pages show no archives -- ie
apparently launching in 2013.    There's also a "Launch New Journal" menu
option that doesn't work, and I see they are charging for publication. There
are a few typos/oddities here and there as well that give me pause,
including the fact that the title of one journal almost looks like they want
it to appear being something produced by IEEE.  Is this an example of
'title-squatting?'

So in general, in the absence of other evidence I am a bit
sceptical....especially since we've been hit twice in 3 days with this
generic CFP solicitation.  Of course, this is just my opinion based on a
2-minute skim of their site.

-- rick

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On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:41 PM, michael gurstein wrote:

Could this possibly be a scam?

M

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Dear Sir/Madam,

Kindly forward this information to your faculties/departments/centers.

Call For Papers

International Research Organization of Computer Science (IROCS Journals) is
an open access publisher with a mission to serve society through excellence
in education, research, service and to generate new knowledge and technology
for the benefit of everyone ranging from the academic and professional
research communities to industry practitioners.

IROCS Journals invites researchers and industrial practitioners to submit
their research work in its International peer review journals covering
computer sciences and engineering topics in general and computer security,
image processing, signal processing, Electronics, GIS, applied sciences,
business and management research and many other scientific topics.

All journals under IROCS seeks to publish a balanced mix of high quality
theoretical or empirical research articles, case studies, book reviews,
tutorials, editorials as well as pedagogical and curricular issues
surrounding computer science and engineering fields.

List of Journals

Click on the appropriate journal name to view the complete detail of the
journal.

<http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJBM/description.php?JCode=IJBM
International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM)

<http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJEEE/description.php?JCode=IJE
EE> International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
EE> (IJEEE)

<http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJIPG/description.php?JCode=IJI
PG> International journal of image processing and graphics (IJIPG)

<http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJCSIS/description.php?JCode=IJ
CSIS> International journals of computer science and Information 
CSIS> security
(IJCSIS)

Important Dates

Paper Submission: April 30, 2013

Author Notification: May 31, 2013

Journal Publication: June 2013

Call For Editorial

IROCS Journals invites the interested professionals to contribute into IROCS
research network by joining us as a part of editorial board members for its
scientific peer-reviewed journals. All journals uses an online, electronic
submission process. The Editor is responsible for the timely and substantive
output of the journal, including the solicitation of manuscripts,
supervision of the peer review process and the final selection of articles
for publication. Duties also include implementing the Journal's editorial
policies, maintaining high professional standards for published content,
ensuring the integrity of the Journal, guiding manuscripts through the
review process, overseeing revisions, and planning special issues along with
the editorial team. The new editors will begin to receive manuscripts
starting from April 2013.

Interested applicants may contact IROCSJournals Editorial Office
(coordinator at irocsjournals.org<mailto:coordinator at irocsjournals.org>) for
additional information regarding the responsibilities and benefits.
Applicants must submit a detailed CV along with a brief statement of
contribution for the journal.

Please remember that it is through the effort of volunteers such as yourself
that IROCS Journals continues to grow and flourish. Your help with reviewing
the issues would be very much appreciated.

Contact Details

IROCS Journals Team

International Research Organization of Computer Science

press at irocsjournals.org<mailto:press at irocsjournals.org>

Url: http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/home.php

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