FW: Call for papers, reviewers and Editorial-Advisory Board members

["Margaret Landesman" <margaret.landesman@utah.edu>]

Do others of you have faculty reporting ads like this?  From this 
and other sources?

It's touching to see an "overriding passion" to assist academics, 
but could it also be phrased, "Since faculty author, review, and 
edit for free, why not see if they'll do it for us?"

Margaret Landesman
Utah

>Call for papers, reviewers and Editorial-Advisory Board members
>
>Every researcher, writer or artist deserves a fair consideration 
>to be published. Scientific Journals International (SJI) 
>provides an efficient forum for publishing research and creative 
>work from all disciplines. SJI has assembled an extensive and 
>prestigious Editorial and Advisory Board 
>(www.scientificjournals.org/editorial_board.htm).
>
>This initiative is driven by an overriding passion to assist 
>researchers, writers and artists to cope with the "publish or 
>perish" reality that has been created by the policies of the 
>academia and funding agencies. According to several surveys, a 
>large majority of authors and researchers cite slow review 
>process and publication delays in the current system as a major 
>obstacle to their publishing objectives.  Many have also 
>expressed concerns about the fairness and integrity of the peer 
>review process in traditional scholarly publishing. Some 
>scholars have argued that there is a need to liberate the 
>publication process for broader and fairer access.
>
>Scientific Journals International (SJI) is the first global 
>initiative that intends to accomplish this objective.  We 
>sincerely believe that researchers, writers and artists who have 
>devoted months or years to a research/creative project, should 
>not be shut out of the publication world simply because they did 
>not follow some procedural or stylistic rules and guidelines or 
>because their work did not fit in.  All traditional journals 
>have very rigid stylistic or procedural policies that unduly 
>create artificial barriers and in effect retard innovation and 
>creativity.
>
>Scientific Journals International (SJI) maintains minimal 
>procedural and stylistic rules, and accepts papers that follow 
>any style manual such as APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.  A fair 
>peer-reviewed evaluation system is used to select papers for 
>publication. SJI maintains a rapid electronic submission, review 
>and publication process.  Additionally, we do not set the same 
>limitations on the length of the article as other traditional 
>and online journals do. Our capability for perpetual future 
>accessibility and preservation is also extremely valuable to 
>both authors and readers.
>
>Our manuscript submission guidelines can be found at 
>http://www.scientificjournals.org/submission.htm. Application 
>form for Reviewers and Editorial Advisory Board can be found at 
>http://www.scientificjournals.org/wanted.htm. Current issues can 
>be found at http://www.scientificjournals.org/current_issue.htm.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Neil A. Anderson
>Scientific Journals International (SJI)
>http://www.scientificjournals.org
>or http://www.gcchq.com/SJI