From: Robin Sinn <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 11:50:23 +0000 Retraction Watch took a look at this. https://retractionwatch.com/2018/05/30/want-to-earn-10k- per-month-join-the-journals-mafia/ ------------------------------------------------- Robin N Sinn (she, her, hers) Coordinator, Office of Scholarly Communication JHU Libraries | Johns Hopkins University |Baltimore MD 21218 [log in to unmask] | 410-516-8346 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7609-9594 From: Eric Elmore <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 17:19:48 +0000 Sounds like a perfectly reasonable request given the current state of “free market capitalism”. So I’d say it’s a combination of A, B, and C but definitely not D. I think that ship sailed a long time ago for anyone trying to find common sense in our current global politico-economic environment. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Eric Elmore | Electronic Resources Coordinator | The University of Texas at San Antonio | One UTSA Circle | San Antonio, TX. 78249-0671 | (O)210-458-4916/(F)210-458-4577 | [log in to unmask] | ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 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