From: "Hinchliffe, Lisa W" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 02:40:37 +0000
FWIW, here is the domain registration info:
Domain Name: http://JOURNALS-MAFIA.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2257022681_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: http://whois.reg.com
Registrar URL: http://www.reg.ru
Updated Date: 2018-05-03T14:54:53Z
Creation Date: 2018-04-26T12:43:30Z
Lisa
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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Professor/ Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction
University Library, University of Illinois, 1408 West Gregory Drive,
Urbana, Illinois 61801
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*Subject:* Going out of my mind
From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 17:03:51 -0700
I request the learned help of Liblicense-L readers to advise me
whether the following link constitutes (a) phishing, (b) a hilarious
parody of modern academic life, (c) a bald-faced central Asian attempt
to wring revenue out of the journals-publishing system, or (d)
evidence that I have finally lost my marbles.
http://www.journals-mafia.com/?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.journals-2Dmafia.com_-3Fcn-3DZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y-26refsrc-3Demail&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=EE5vJ-IOLjGK--oAkNW9DMFEo5gGTLnGLRqx-7NCwVg&m=I442EEnMQqwkdZPf-w_OeEMD-zYCFTwbrZ3zTZD4ky0&s=d4C_eHgTLlkCVfkbP_QEZHlNYzb-frQ3qhftbtq4DB8&e=>
If I have it right, they're coming to journal editors/publishers with
a deal: let us be your exclusive agent (if you are low-ranking or
frankly predatory journal) recruiting articles from Russia,
Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan, which they will pre-vet to assure highest
quality and whose authors they will charge a no doubt sturdy APC. If
you agree not to take other articles from those countries, they will
get you a steady supply and share the APC revenue with you -- with
money that they assure you is 'anonymous'. (Is that what we call
funneling?) If you are a high-ranking journal, they will supply you
one article per issue and will handle all the revisions you require
themselves.
The site's author (I hesitate to say entrepreneur of a site that posts
photographs of Don Corleone and Scarface to illustrate their business
practices) sets out the goal clearly: "My goal is to monopolize
publication market of Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. All the
publications must go through my companies, through my journals or
partner journals."
Jim O'Donnell
ASU
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