[Air-L] IROCS Journals : Call For Papers

Thu Apr 11 10:17:50 PDT 2013

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!

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From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jasmine E McNealy
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:05 PM
To: Richard Forno
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] IROCS Journals : Call For Papers

"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.

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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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Subject: [Air-L] IROCS Journals : Call For Papers

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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