Danas je Jeffrey Beall ponovo opomenuo naučnike na predatorstvo OMICS izdavaštva. Nečasno je kako se ova indijska kompanija odnosi prema naučnicima i koliko je u stanju da se igra sa ljudskim dostojanstvom. Svakodnevno naučni radnici dobijaju tzv. mailove "Call for papers" gde ih pozivaju na saradnju. Na skoro već agresivan način, ponavljaju ista pisma a naslovi časopisa se menjaju. OMICS Publishing Group kupuje za male pare časopise koji su nekad samostalno radili i rangirali se na JCR listi sa IF. Zbog krize, časopis se proda jer mu OMICS ponudi OA režim, a postojeći IF i rang tog časopisa preuzme, i pod tim IF provlači i druge časopise koje je kupio a nemaju naučnu vrednost.
čiji je autor J. Beall.
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Hyderabad, India-based
OMICS Publishing Group is among the most abusive of the scholarly publishers classified as “predatory publishers.” One of the ways it rips off researchers is by spamming them without mentioning the article processing charges.
Occasionally, researchers respond to the spam emails by submitting a manuscript, which is quickly accepted, with a quick and trivial peer review. Soon afterwards, the authors are surprised by a hefty and unexpected invoice, often for $2,700.
Below are three emails I received recently that document three cases of this abuse. The third example is an email exchange between the duped author and “Joseph Marreddy,” a contrived name used by someone at OMICS Publishing Group, followed by a summary email sent to me.
Example 1
Hi Jeff,
I stumbled onto your blog recently as I was looking at the omics group. I am sad to say that I was one of those researchers duped by the omics group. My boss, a prominent doctor was invited by omics group to submit some articles. We did so, not realizing how bad it was, but after we submitted, they gave us an invoice charging us for it, even thought they invited us to submit articles, with a tight deadline no less! Now we seem to be stuck. We have not approved the final proof, and we specifically told them we want to withdraw the article, but they are not letting us do that, as they had already assigned a DOI for the paper. I have tried to contact them about this, but to no avail, and they always seem to give me the runaround. Is there any recourse for poor victims like me? What would you suggest we do?
Thank you for your kind attention.
Number 2
Hello
I live in France and I’m sorry if my English is not very clear.
I write to you because OMICS contacted me last year for submitting and publish an article in the Journal of Medical Diagnostic. In their email, they were talking about special issues and did not mention fee publication. However, I submitted an article. After a review, they ask me to modify a little article (not a lot) then send me authorproof this month. And I discovered fee publication, which were not mentionned in their first email. Fee are about 919 dollars. When I told them that I can not pay because I am still a student, they proposed me 500 dollars, and they say that it can not be lower (it’s the minimal) and show me by internet link intructions for authors mentionning fee publication of 900 dollars.
I read an article on web about predatory scholary open-access publishers written by you. I didn’t know that it can exist until now.
OMICS is now asking me to pay. But before they publish it I said when I receive authorproof that I didn’t wish to publish in their journal but even, they publish it. However, they didn’t send any examplary of the review and when I asked for when I can see the article, I wonder if it is a false view of the page or not (http://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/ArchiveJMDM/articleinpress-medical-diagnostic-methods-open-access.php).
Can you help me? I am French so I don’t know the law in USA, I don’t know what to do and i am very afraid that they ask me for more money.
The OMICS contact is:
Mr Joseph G Marreddy
Journal of Medical Diagnostic Methods.
731 Gull Ave, Foster City
CA 94404, USA
Phone: +1- 650-268-9744
Fax: +1-650-618-1414
Toll Free: +1-800-216-6499
Please can you help me? i would be very grateful
Danas je Jeffrey Beall ponovo opomenuo naučnike na predatorstvo OMICS izdavaštva. Nečasno je kako se ova indijska kompanija odnosi prema naučnicima i koliko je u stanju da se igra sa ljudskim dostojanstvom. Svakodnevno naučni radnici dobijaju tzv. mailove "Call for papers" gde ih pozivaju na saradnju. Na skoro već agresivan način, ponavljaju ista pisma a naslovi časopisa se menjaju. OMICS Publishing Group kupuje za male pare časopise koji su nekad samostalno radili i rangirali se na JCR listi sa IF. Zbog krize, časopis se proda jer mu OMICS ponudi OA režim, a postojeći IF i rang tog časopisa preuzme, i pod tim IF provlači i druge časopise koje je kupio a nemaju naučnu vrednost.