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 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] -- Shirley Ainsworth Bibliotecaria/Librarian Instituto de Biotecnologia, UNAM Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. email [log in to unmask]