[Air-L] Beware IR14-related predatory journal emails

Daren Brabham brabham at usc.edu
Fri Mar 14 10:22:29 PDT 2014 

A public service announcement to members of this list who might be getting similar emails today from David Publishing Company about a paper you presented last year at AoIR.

I received this crappy email (below) from the “Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication,” a product of David Publishing Company. It’s the typical mass form email many predatory open access publishers send to try to get you to pay-to-publish in their poor quality, will-never-count-for-tenure publications. This time they’re referencing my Ignite talk from last year’s AoIR, which wasn’t really a paper anyway (it’s a distillation from my book).

Many things wrong with this email:
-	They claim to be indexed with EBSCO and other databases, but I’m almost certain this can’t be true
-	Being catalogued by the Library of Congress is not a notable thing. Anyone can file an application for an ISSN with LoC.
-	“We will charge some publication fee if the paper is published in our journal,” and of course the paper will be accepted, even if it’s gibberish or unscientific, and the fee will be hundreds or possibly a few thousand dollars.
-	Peer review time is 2-3 weeks, which is highly unusual.

Anyway, to those of you not keeping up with the discussion of predatory open access journals are about, I recommend Jeffrey Beall’s list, where David Publishing is listed: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

For those of you who get invited to review, serve on editorial boards, or publish in these kinds of journals, please use good judgment. For every good scholar they rope in to publish with them or serve on an editorial board, they use that fact to further confuse other scholars (and new researchers and grad students) who may not be as savvy about how to tell good journals from bad ones.

And if you want a non-predatory open access publishing experience in Internet studies, you’ll find many respectable journals of that stripe listed here: http://aoir.wikia.com/wiki/Journals_for_Internet_Research

Cheers,

db


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Daren C. Brabham, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Editor, Case Studies in Strategic Communication | www.csscjournal.org
University of Southern California
3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089
(213) 740-2007 office | (801) 633-4796 cell
brabham at usc.edu | www.darenbrabham.com

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From: journalism [mailto:journalism at davidpublishing.org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:52 PM
To: brabham
Subject: Call for Papers-IR14-The 14th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers

 
                                     From Knowledge to Wisdom
Journalism and Mass Communication
Print ISSN: 2160-6579                            Current Volume: 1/2014
 Dear Dr. Daren C. Brabham,
 
This is the Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication (ISSN 2160-6579), a professional journal published across the United States by David Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, USA. I am pleased to learn you have submitted the paper 
titled       The Four Approaches to Crowdsourcing      to IR14-The 14th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers.
 
We are very interested in your research, if the paper mentioned has not been published in other journal, please feel free to send electronic version to us. 
And all your other original and unpublished papers are welcome.
If you are interested in our journal, we also want to invite some people to be our reviewers or become our editorial board members. You can send your CV to us. 
Expect to get your reply soon.
 
The below is more information on our journal and some guidelines for you and you can know our journal at http://www.davidpublishing.com/journals_info.asp?jId=418
Descriptions
The Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication, a professional scholarly peer-reviewed academic journal, commits itself to promoting the academic communication about recent developments on Journalism and Mass Communication, covers all sorts of research on journalism, radio and television journalism, new media, news ethics and regulations, the integration of media and culture and other relevant areas, and tries to provide a platform for experts and scholars worldwide to exchange their latest findings.
 
The Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication is collected and indexed by the Library of U.S. Congress, on whose official website (http://catalog.loc.gov), an on-line inquiry can be triggered with their publication numbers, ISSN2160--6579 respectively, as keywords in “Basic Search” column. In addition, the journal is retrieved by some renowned databases:
★ Google Scholar 
★ Database of EBSCO, Massachusetts, USA
★ Chinese Database of CEPS, American Federal Computer Library center (OCLC), USA
★ Chinese Scientific Journals Database, VIP Corporation, Chongqing, P. R. China
★ Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, USA
★ Pro Quest Social Science Collection, Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), USA
★ Summon Serials Solutions, USA
★Universe Digital Library S/B, Malaysia
★Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD), Norway
 
Guidelines for Authors 
1. Submission of Manuscript: The manuscript should be original, and has not been published previously. Do not submit material that is currently being considered by another journal. The manuscript should be in MS Word format, submitted as an email attachment to our email address: journalism at davidpublishing.com; journalism at davidpublishing.org
2. Some requirements : Manuscripts may be 3000-12000 words or longer if approved by the editor, including an abstract, texts, tables, footnotes, appendixes, and references. The title should be on page 1 and not exceed 15 words, and should be followed by an abstract of 100-200 words. 3-5 keywords or key phrases are required.
3. Transfer of Copyright Agreement: Authors of the articles being accepted are required to sign up the Transfer of Copyright Agreement form.
4. Hard Copies: Author will receive 2 hard copies of the journal containing their articles.
5. Publication Fee: We will charge some fee if the paper is published in our journal.
 
Editorial Procedures
All papers considered appropriate for this journal are reviewed anonymously by at least two outside reviewers. The review process usually takes two to three weeks. Papers are accepted for publication subject to no substantive, stylistic editing. The editor reserves the right to make any necessary changes in the papers, or request the author to do so, or reject the paper submitted. A copy of the edited paper along with the first proofs will be sent to the author for proofreading. They should be corrected and returned to the editor within seven days. Once the final version of the paper has been accepted, authors are requested not to make further changes to the text.
 
Best Regards,
Emma Woo
Editor Office
Journalism and Mass Communication, ISSN 2160-6579
David Publishing Company
240 Nagle Avenue #15C, New York, NY 10034, USA,
E-mail:  journalism at davidpublishing.com; journalism at davidpublishing.org
Tel: 1-323-984-7526; 1-323-410-1082     Fax: 1-323-984-7374; 1-323-908-0457
 
Address of Headquarters: David Publishing Company, 240 Nagle Avenue #15C, New York, NY 10034, USA
E-mail: journalism at davidpublishing.com;  journalism at davidpublishing.org
 
 
 
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