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Invention Journals are "Open Aaccess"

Five journals, all ending with the word "Invention" in their name, are listed on the website inventionjournals.org (10/10/2018). They are "Open Aaccess To All Researchers" with "Online As Well As Print Version Both" and "Doulble Blind Peer Review." (Evidently, line editing remains a challenge to the editors.) These journals have posted a copyright assignment form that is incoherent. It states that the author "understand[s] that the Editor-in-Chief IJESI may transfer the Copyright to a publisher at his discretion" yet asserts that "[t]he author(s) reserve(s) all proprietary rights ... ." The spam and the web sites provide no address or telephone numbers, but India is the probable location. The registrant information on the domain ijesi.org is limited to the location of Uttar Pradesh. The registrar is Net 4 India, Ltd. The "Editorials Board Members" of the International Journal of Engineering and Science Invention , w...
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Gece Academy: Pay to Publish Your Dissertation or Thesis

It is easy to have a dissertation published. In addition to outfits that help with the construction of any e-book from any paying author who wants to self-publish, there is ProQuest Dissertations & Theses , which boasts "[t]he largest collection of electronic theses and dissertations available worldwide ... 4 million works from more than 3,000 universities, [with] more than 130,000 works [added] annually" (10/5/18). (On the perils of publishing with ProQuest, see Kathryn Hume's remarks in https://theprofessorisin.com/2011/08/24/the-perils-of-publishing-your-dissertation-online/ .) Another option for avoiding the screening process or criteria of traditional, relatively selective academic publishing houses is to turn to publishers who are less picky or who use different criteria . Obviously, these publications will carry little brand-name prestige, and expecting high quality line and copy editing could well be unrealistic.But you have to pay for them anyway with Gece ...
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The American Publishing House (TAPH) -- A House in a House?

The American Publishing House (which uses the acronym TAPH) is "always open to any correspondence from your side." Indeed, it is "open to any kind of feedbacks ... ." GoDaddy's Domains By Proxy registered the name theamph.com for the principals behind TAPH. The address on the contact page is "27, George Street, Bloomfield NJ 07003-4329." Homemetry.com reports this as the location of a single family dwelling (4 beds, 2.5 baths, 1,926 sqft) owned by Vasant S Kalathia and last sold: Feb 2013 for $327,100. The business currently registered at this location is Shanti Kalathia , Certified Public Accountant. The address also is used by Shreeji Impex, Inc . Current or past residents are Shanti Kalathi, 973-338-0687; Shantilal Kalathia (same); Priya Kalathia (973-338-8811); Shanti V Kalathia (same); Uday A Kalathia (same); Vasant S Kalathia (same). As of September 21, 2018, TAPH purports to publish the following journals: Journal Editor Board Members Contents...
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Parasites

The following comment-spammers are blocked from this site. Their comments, sometimes repeated dozens of times, are advertisements. Publishers ⊗ All bangla newspaper (Web worker) ⊗ CaryPress International ⊗ DailySurma.com.news (Web worker) ⊗ National Journal Publications (Nagendra Lohith) ⊗ Net Journals (Rakul Preet: 42 MedDocs advertisements) ⊗ pegasusmediagroup ⊗ SciTech Central (directly and via yadavs indian) Ghostwritng or editing ⊗ Academic Writing Service (Alpha Assignment Help) ⊗ priyakarthik (Blogger profile consists of the word "proofreading" and a link to TJPRC journals) ⊗ Projectsdeal Dissertation Proofreading Services UK (Burhan, James Smith) ⊗ Toby Warner Universities ⊗ Jordan University (farah) ⊗ University of Jordan (uj website) Drugs or healers ⊗ Cilexin Male Enhancement Pills ⊗ promise dickson (similar) ⊗ Julia Franlin miracle cures ⊗ "i am Mudaf Kyle from MALARIA" Clothing ⊗ bestplaceyeezys.com (yeezy sneakers) Travel ⊗ Nepal Base Camp Treks (Sappa...
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Fitness World Magazine wants "your outstanding research in medical field"

Perhaps the email below does not qualify for inclusion in the Flaky Academic Journals blog. Who would mistake "Fitness World Magazine" for an academic journal? Nevertheless, it seems to reaching out (from an email address in India) and using a street address in California (that Google Maps does not recognize) to attract contributions from "researchers ... in the medical field." Email From: Lauren [lauren@giftitnow.co.in] Date: Thu 9/13/2018 11:08 AM Subject: Your Research in Fitness Magazines Greetings from Fitness World Magazine. I am Lauren , editorial assistant from Fitness World magazine contacting you regarding your outstanding research in medical field . We are reaching out to experts in fitness industry and asking them to share their outstanding research with us. Our editors at Fitness world magazine would like to feature them in our monthly magazine and bring good reputation to researchers like you in the medical field. Our Fitness World Magazine is distr...
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IJCER Publications, "The Imminent and Sovereign Online Engineering Information Service"

A webpage called "The Foundation" on icjeronline.com indicates that the publisher's only journal to date fills a much-needed gap in the literature. It begins: The IJCER Publications is established in the year of September-2011 with people from various avenues of engineering profession, who have come together in a single platform [sounds painful] to redefine the structure of engineering profession in the country, where it is seen only as an industry oriented profession. We are pleased to introduce ourselves as the novel, imminent and sovereign online engineering information services in the world . The foundation aims to support every effort to “empower technical education and research/Young research engineering scholors ”. With a first of its kind website in the country [would that this were so] , it strive to improve the knowledge of students and professionals in the various fields of engineering by providing valuable resources in the form of ebooks, articles etc. It is...
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AND Media, a "Google Partner Network"

Today's email is not from a journal publisher -- flaky, predatory, or otherwise -- at least, not one that I can locate. It purports to be from Google News, Google News (Partnered Company), and AND Media Ltd ( Google Partner Network). The message has the deceptive title "You are Featured in Google News" -- no such luck. The claims are rather silly -- "you can even apply for grants from the government or university by publishing your work in Google News"! The domain name oasispub.co.in suggests an Indian origin. ICANN does not show registration data, but a whois search on domaintools.com shows registration to "Student" in India in June 2018. The website oasispub.co.in is a blog (with no content) called "Oasis Cart – One shopping destination." Neither Mapquest nor Google Maps recognizes the email's street address in Massachusetts. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to imagine why anyone would send "your opinion article" or ...
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