Daren, You should know that the non-commercial open access journals also need some form of financial support (a stable business model). My understanding is that various of these journals currently rely on various forms of donations -- in some cases corporate, in others local universities (who have the resources to provide this support) and other... But a lot of open access journals are currently hitting a financial wall in that their source of voluntary labour and non-recurrent contributions are drying up and in the absence of appropriate funding models there are problems, at least on the horizon. Pay-to-publish (pay to play) is almost certainly not an appropriate way to go for a variety of reasons, but nor IMHO is a situation wihere there are publishing opportunities only for those with wealthy (and potentially self-interested ?) benefactors. Research grants in some cases now have provision for dissemination which IMHO could/should be linked to OA publishing and most importantly some provision needs to be developed to steer the funds that are currently going to over-priced commercial "free" publishing journals towards "free" publishing non-commercial OA journals. How to establish the relative value of individual journals in the midst of what appears to be a major onslaught of bad money chasing good (as in this instance) is something that will need to be addressed and quite quickly I believe if scholarly/research publishing as we have known it up to now is to survive. (And that of course, belies the question of whether such an approach to research dissemination is the most useful one in the longer term in any case, as a number of experiments currently underway are putting into question.) M Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics web: http://ci-journal.net email: gurstein@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Brabham, Daren C Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:18 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] IROCS Journals : Call For Papers A scam? Absolutely. If you get that feeling from a 2-minute glance of their site, then your hunch is right. In my opinion, never a need to pay-to-publish in an academic journal. There are tons of legitimate options out there in our field (all the usual suspects). And if you're craving a good open access journal, there's always First Monday, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Game Studies, International Journal of Internet Science, International Journal of Communication, etc. etc. etc. If your article is worth publishing, you shouldn't have to pay to do so! db --- Daren C. Brabham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication Editor, Case Studies in Strategic Communication | www.csscjournal.org University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carroll Hall, CB 3365 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (801) 633-4796 (mobile) daren.brabham@unc.edu | www.darenbrabham.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jasmine E McNealy Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:05 PM To: Richard Forno Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] IROCS Journals : Call For Papers "Title-squatting"--I like it. The NYT article on predatory open access journals talked a bit about this phenomenon. JM _______________________________ Jasmine McNealy, J.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor S.I. Newhouse of Public Communication Syracuse University 215 University Place Room 377 NH2 Syracuse, NY 13244<x-apple-data-detectors://0/0> 315-443-1151<tel:315-443-1151> jemcneal@syr.edu<x-apple-msg-load://5C7672F0-768F-4051-9461-A9433C2EFD35/jem cneal@syr.edu> http://ssrn.com/author=1357319 On Apr 11, 2013, at 11:59 AM, "Richard Forno" <rforno@infowarrior.org<mailto:rforno@infowarrior.org>> wrote: A quick spot-check of some of their journal pages show no archives -- ie apparently launching in 2013. There's also a "Launch New Journal" menu option that doesn't work, and I see they are charging for publication. There are a few typos/oddities here and there as well that give me pause, including the fact that the title of one journal almost looks like they want it to appear being something produced by IEEE. Is this an example of 'title-squatting?' So in general, in the absence of other evidence I am a bit sceptical....especially since we've been hit twice in 3 days with this generic CFP solicitation. Of course, this is just my opinion based on a 2-minute skim of their site. -- rick ------ Richard F. Forno, Ph.D. Director, Graduate Cybersecurity Program A/Director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity cybersecurity.umbc.edu<http://cybersecurity.umbc.edu> On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:41 PM, michael gurstein wrote: Could this possibly be a scam? M -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of IROCS Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:32 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] IROCS Journals : Call For Papers Dear Sir/Madam, Kindly forward this information to your faculties/departments/centers. Call For Papers International Research Organization of Computer Science (IROCS Journals) is an open access publisher with a mission to serve society through excellence in education, research, service and to generate new knowledge and technology for the benefit of everyone ranging from the academic and professional research communities to industry practitioners. IROCS Journals invites researchers and industrial practitioners to submit their research work in its International peer review journals covering computer sciences and engineering topics in general and computer security, image processing, signal processing, Electronics, GIS, applied sciences, business and management research and many other scientific topics. All journals under IROCS seeks to publish a balanced mix of high quality theoretical or empirical research articles, case studies, book reviews, tutorials, editorials as well as pedagogical and curricular issues surrounding computer science and engineering fields. List of Journals Click on the appropriate journal name to view the complete detail of the journal. <http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJBM/description.php?JCode=IJBM International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) <http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJEEE/description.php?JCode=IJE EE> International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering EE> (IJEEE) <http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJIPG/description.php?JCode=IJI PG> International journal of image processing and graphics (IJIPG) <http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/journals/IJCSIS/description.php?JCode=IJ CSIS> International journals of computer science and Information CSIS> security (IJCSIS) Important Dates Paper Submission: April 30, 2013 Author Notification: May 31, 2013 Journal Publication: June 2013 Call For Editorial IROCS Journals invites the interested professionals to contribute into IROCS research network by joining us as a part of editorial board members for its scientific peer-reviewed journals. All journals uses an online, electronic submission process. The Editor is responsible for the timely and substantive output of the journal, including the solicitation of manuscripts, supervision of the peer review process and the final selection of articles for publication. Duties also include implementing the Journal's editorial policies, maintaining high professional standards for published content, ensuring the integrity of the Journal, guiding manuscripts through the review process, overseeing revisions, and planning special issues along with the editorial team. The new editors will begin to receive manuscripts starting from April 2013. Interested applicants may contact IROCSJournals Editorial Office (coordinator@irocsjournals.org<mailto:coordinator@irocsjournals.org>) for additional information regarding the responsibilities and benefits. Applicants must submit a detailed CV along with a brief statement of contribution for the journal. Please remember that it is through the effort of volunteers such as yourself that IROCS Journals continues to grow and flourish. Your help with reviewing the issues would be very much appreciated. 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