Predatory publishers scholarly research and related. My first thoughts were oh man, i didnt think that paper was that great. Covers how to control ants, flea and ticks, flys, underground pests, termites, many fruit tree pests, various tree pests, rose pests, lawn pests, home pests. Predatory publisher hooked health canada with spam. Intech provides free online access to high quality research, and we are helping leading academics make their work visible. What is the consenus of intechopen, open access books, are. With the exception i have to pay intech plenty of money to put it up. Physical sciences, engineering and technology intechopen. Intechopen, bookboon and frontiers, in that order, come in at the top as the worlds largest oa book publishers by title count. Due to constant problems with weebly service, we decided to move to an independent server.
As scholarly publishing moves quickly, this static list will lose relevancy over time. I have written a number of book chapters, the intech book i contributed to is of the same caliber as the other books from more mainstream publishers. Intechs nicola rylett the history of open access oa publisher intech is a complicated and somewhat confusing one. Since the structured light approach has progressed a lot over the recent years, the information in this tutorial is largely obsolete. Free academic open access books, journals and research. The strategy seems to be to mine reputable conference and journal papers for email addresses and then use them for targeted spam. As phd students, we found it difficult to access the research we needed, so we decided to create a new open access publisher that levels the playing field for scientists across the world. Jeffrey beall, associate professor and librarian at the university of colorado denver, has decided to no longer maintain or publish his research or blog on open access journals and predatory publishers. The history of open access oa publisher intech is a complicated and somewhat confusing one.
The books envelop themes such as pesticides, herbicides, thermodynamics, data mining, automotive industry, heat transfer, mass transfer, wind tunnels, chaotic systems. Open access is an initiative that aims to make scientific research freely available to all. How we can protect emails from these kind of attack. If the journal is open access, does the publisher belong to the open access scholarly publishers association oaspa. Malware now hiding inside fake copies of online books. Its based on principles of collaboration, unobstructed discovery, and, most importantly, scientific progression. In february, another batch of free books has been uploaded by intech, and made ready for the reading world. We share our knowledge and peerreveiwed research papers with libraries, scientific and engineering societies, and also. Our readership spans scientists, professors, researchers, librarians, and students, as well as business professionals. Sort by date sort by citation count sort alphabetically. Of these three publishers, intechopen is the only one whose core output consists. Become a member of and you can download five free books every month.
And what exactly is the point of an open access book chapter. I just received an email from a group called intech open access publisher, referencing one of my papers, and asking me if id like to submit a chapter for a book. Intech is a pioneer in the publication of open access books, with a collection currently comprising over 400 books written by more than 25,000 renowned authors. It claims intechopen has published 2,977 books and 46,833 scientific works total by 100,665 international scientists whatever international means in this context. In 2005, intech had its first books started and on our fifth anniversary, in 2010, we released the new and the updated version of our first book ever published. Intech is one of the biggest publishers of open access scholarly books and among the first to engage in such a publishing process. If we are to trust symbolism, number 21 presents the harmony of creation, a perfection. List of predatory publishers stop predatory journals. Judging by how much spam i get nowadays it seems academic open access publishing is lucrative. Academia stack exchange is a question and answer site for academics and those enrolled in higher education. Open access section on advanced image sensor technology. By making research easy to access, and puts the academic needs of the researchers before the business interests of publishers.
Is the journal hosted on one of inasps journals online platforms for journals published in bangladesh, nepal, sri lanka, central america and mongolia or on african journals online ajol, for african journals. Ccmf, computational context modeling framework an ontological approach to develop contextaware web applications. Intechopens journals heading to sage publishing stm. I bet this is a form email sent out to thousands of researchers based on a keyword search. While asking me to write something about quantum chemistry is not completely out of the question, it didnt take long to spot the scam. Publishers standalone journals vanity press contact other hello. Intech is an open access publisher of scientific books and journals. Open access, spam and academic scams just say no today i got an email from an open access publisher called intech asking me for a chapter for an upcoming book on quantum chemistry. Instructions in this article apply to outlook 2019, 2016, 20, 2010, 2007. Intech is an open access publisher of academic books and journals in the fields of science, technology and medicine stm.
The kernel for this list was extracted from the archive of bealls list at web. Posted in cardiology innovation, cardiology journal club, cardiology journal links, cardiology journals, cardiology teaching websites, cardiologyland mark studies, great websites in cardiology tagged great learning websites, intech open science open mind, open access journals, scientific democracy leave a comment. How to recover mail from the outlook junk mail folder. The book will be published by intech, open access publisher of books and journals in the fields of science, technology and medicine. As a pioneer of the open access book publishing model, and publisher of the worlds largest collection of open access books, intechopen will now strengthen its focus. Another open access publisher that likes to send spam is hindawi.
Or is it because it is an open access editor that big publishers are trying to work against it. Open access is an essential addition to the libraries of anyone interested in the future of scholarly publishing in all of its forms. Osa advances in optics and photonics site also has a 2011 open access paper structuredlight 3d surface imaging. The about us page describes the group as the worlds largest science, technology and medicine open access book publisher. In 2015, open access books have grown at a rate of 30% with an estimated 10,000 scholarly and academic books available on the internet. It is a scientific community comprising of 116,000 authors and academic editors, and a. In march 2008, gunther eysenbach, publisher of an early open access journal, drew attention to what he called black sheep among open access publishers and journals and highlighted in his blog publishers and journals which resorted to excessive spam to attract authors and editors, criticizing in particular bentham, dove medical press, and libertas academica. Intechs total control spam filtering is part of our 100% moneyback guarantee. To date our community has made over 100 million downloads. A special section on advanced image sensor technology is now published in ite transactions on media technology and applications mta vol. Cu denver supports and recognizes the important work professor beall has contributed to the field and to scholars worldwide. What is the consenus of intechopen, open access books, are they predatory.
Intechopen is part of intech open access publisher. For a while, intechs leading publication was an open access journal. When you recover a message, youll teach the outlook spam filter a lesson about what a good email looks like. How to write a persuasive academic book proposal enago. Even lawmakers are stepping up to fight spam in the united states the canspam act of 2003 was passed into law. According to a scribd presentation, the company was founded in vienna in 2004. With intech, not only do we find that costsavings, but we find competence in all areas. It will be updated as new information or suggested edits are submitted or found by the maintainers of this site. Through a range of tools and practical resources, this international, crosssector initiative aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications.
Contribute a chapter to three dimensional computer graphics, an upcoming open access book edited. Intech open access journals to be published by sage. I might as well just make the text available on the web myself. The interview between ms rylett and mr poynder raised a number of important, pertinent and extremely interesting points that were not only relevant to intech but also to the wider publishing and open access communities. Intech asking him to write one chapter in one of intechs online books. Intech is a pioneer and worlds largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of science, technology and medicine. About intech open access publisher intechopen blog. Intech open access publisher submitted, march 2011. Professors shoji kawahito and jun ohta served as an editorinchief and a secretary of the special section, respectively. Natural and organic pest control, by andrew lopez and.
We are passionate about research and the search for excellence. This is an archive copy of the latest edition of bealls list before it went dark. We are intechopen, the worlds leading publisher of open access books. International journal of advanced robotic systems impact factor. I just received an invitation from the intech institution to publish my work in one of their books and. Internet technologiesemail spam wikibooks, open books. You might not have heard about open access yet, but its becoming increasingly adopted by the academic publishing community as a means of publishing a body of research accessible to the global community of scientists, as well as the general public. Since 2004, intech has collaborated with more than eighty thousand authors and published over two thousand books and 6 journals with the aim of providing free online. Intechopen identified as world leader in open access books. I keep getting targeted spam from bentham, hindawi, intech, and others. This address belongs to a group at our end and hence cannot send an email to recipients.