From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:11:59 +0000
Thanks very much, Shirley. When I followed the link you provided, I
was able to register. (It was when I followed the link I had found via
Google, the one I provided below, that I encountered the strange
certificate issue.
Thanks again! I hope this was helpful to others on the list as well.
---
Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication
Marriott Library, University of Utah
Desk: (801) 587-9989
Cell: (801) 721-1687
[log in to unmask]
From: Shirley Ainsworth <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:53:51 -0500
I could get in (from Mexico). I registered using an invented mobile
phone number beginning with 944, with 10 digits in total.
They have replaced the UGC approved list with UGC-CARE list, 14 Jun 2019
https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/site/Website/CareList.aspx
The list for Sciences, 363 journals can be displayed 10 by 10, but not
downloaded for example, as far as I can see.
Kind regards
Shirley
--
Shirley Ainsworth
Bibliotecaria/Librarian
Instituto de Biotecnologia, UNAM
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
email [log in to unmask]
On 22/07/2019 17:20, LIBLICENSE wrote:
From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:02:49 +0000
Dear CW:
The other day I received yet another in an endless stream of
invitations to contribute a paper to a dodgy-looking journal. But this
one included a particularly interesting claim: that it’s a “UGC
Approved Journal.”
As many listmembers will already know, the UGC is India’s University
Grants Commission, and in 2017 it created a list of approved journals
as a tool to help academic authors avoid deceptive publishers. Given
that the invitation I received was from a deeply suspicious-looking
journal (Exhibit 1: it’s in a field for which I have no qualifications
whatsoever; Exhibit 2: it promises acceptance within “1-2 days after
submission” and publication “within 1-2 days after registration”), I
was interested to see whether it really is on the UGC list.
But to my surprise, when I tried to access the UGC list
(https://www.ugc.ac.in/journallist/), access is denied. Seeing the
list apparently requires some kind of specific credential. In fact,
this seems to be the case for UGC’s entire webspace.
So my question for the CW is this: does anyone know what kind of
credential it takes to access the UGC webspace? (Do you have to be an
academic at an Indian university?) And is it really impossible for
anyone without that credential to double-check a journal’s claim of
UGC approval?
Thanks in advance!
Rick Anderson
---
Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication
Marriott Library, University of Utah
Desk: (801) 587-9989
Cell: (801) 721-1687
[log in to unmask]
|
