[Air-L] Elsevier and peer review

[Kalpana Shankar]

I would second the recommendation to look at Jeffrey Beall's list (he is an
academic librarian and was threatened with a law suit in 2013 to the tune
of 1 billion US dollars by OMICS, one of the firms he targeted which is
predatory publishing outfit in India; the relevant legal statute in India
was struck down in 2015):

List of predatory publishers:
https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

Best.

Kalpana

On 29 December 2016 at 14:03, José María Mateos <chema at rinzewind.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 08:50:56AM -0500, Zach McDowell wrote:
>
>> a great place to start, but it might be interesting if there was a
>> repository of OA shaming somewhere (although something tells me someone
>> has
>> this already) to help align our goals. Its unfortunate about Andrew's
>>
>
> Jeffrey Beall [1] has been doing this for some time. Incidentally, he is
> quoted in a New York Times article today about "fake academia" (everything
> seems to be fake these days) [2].
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chema.
>
> [1] <https://scholarlyoa.com>
> [2] <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looki
> ng-much-like-the-real-thing.html>
>
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