Open Access Scholarly Publishers

[Stevan Harnad <amsciforum@gmail.com>]

[Re-posted from Andrew K. Ho, "Digital & Scholarly"

Jeffrey Beall has written a review on nine "predatory" open 
access scholarly publishers in the Charleston Advisor. 
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/chadv/2010/00000011/00000004/art00005

**From the critical evaluation section of the review:

"These publishers are predatory because their mission is not to 
promote, preserve, and make available scholarship; instead, their 
mission is to exploit the author-pays, Open-Access model for 
their own profit. They work by spamming scholarly e-mail lists, 
with calls for papers and invitations to serve on nominal 
editorial boards. If you subscribe to any professional e-mail 
lists, you likely have received some of these solicitations. 
Also, these publishers typically provide little or no 
peer-review. In fact, in most cases, their peer review process is 
a facade. None of these publishers mentions digital preservation. 
Indeed, any of these publishers could disappear at a moment's 
notice, resulting in the loss of its content..."

See also:
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/12/open-access-in-2009-good-bad-and-ugly.html 
& http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/432-guid.html