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posted by martyb on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the Publish-AND-Perish dept.

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 maxwell demon on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:11AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:11AM (#719273) Journal

    Have you never encountered journals that insist on you signing over exclusive rights to publish upon submission?

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 09 2018, @01:59PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday August 09 2018, @01:59PM (#719367) Homepage
    Yeah, I'm thinking of maths journals. But the "nor submitted for publication elsewhere" clause is the clause that brings about the exclusive rights, for the one that you first submit for publication to.
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