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The first solid indication of how widespread this problem really is came with last year's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) action against one of the largest and most profitable of the alleged predators, the prolific journal publisher and conference organizer OMICS, which publishes 785 titles generating over $50M in annual revenues. The FTC alleges that OMICS makes false promises of peer review in return for article processing charges (APCs), assesses those charges without disclosing them up front (then refuses to let authors withdraw their papers from submission), and lies about both the membership of its editorial boards and the names of presenters at the many conferences it sponsors - all classic examples of predatory publishing practices.
Now comes a small flood of even more alarming reports [...]
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 08 2018, @03:10PM
Jeremy Mould. He left Caltech to head up Kitt Peak, then having established his reputation was able to return home to Australia.
He and Gary DaCosta, our second co-author, both have Wikipedia articles, yet repeated attempts BY OTHERS to write a Wikipedia article about Your Truly have always gotten voted off the site.
Despite the widespread popularity - especially among mental health professionals - I'm not regard as notable because my writing is self-published. The specific reason I self-publish is that I feel very strongly that no one should have to pay money to benefit from my hard-won insights.
The papers were all measurements of the ages of some Magellanic Cloud globular clusters. One can find the ages with a plot of each star's brightness through a Red filter with the difference between Red and Blue. The transmission curve of each filter is rigorously standardized.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]