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: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 09 2018, @01:05AM (2 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:11AM (1 child)
No. In my experience, signing a copyright form is only required after acceptance. At submission, you only have to state that you haven't published, nor submitted for publication elsewhere. But admittedly, those were not maths journals.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 09 2018, @01:59PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves