*Forwarded from IUSS
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*Predatory Open-access Journals***

Do you regularly get emails asking for article submission in open-access
journals?  Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian from University of
Colorado at Denver, has catalogued a list of what he called predatory,
open-access publishers: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/Predatory
open-access journals exploit the author-pays model of open-access
publishing for their own profit. These journals prey on young
researchers with a promise of rapid articles publishing in exchange for
a publishing fee. They usually have no transparency in the process with
little or even no peer-review process. There are several soil science
titles, e.g.  Transnational Journal of Agriculture and Soil Sciences,
  Journal of Soil Science and Environmental Management (by Academic
Journals). Soil scientists may wish to scrutinise this list
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/, and think hard whether to submit
their work to these journals.