Thursday, August 20, 2015

Publication Scam from David Publishing (US-China Education Review A & B)?

After returning to Birmingham from the the SABER meeting, it has been business as usual: 40+ hours/week at the laboratory, teaching, writing and planning for the next phases of my projects - the life of a graduate student. Then suddenly, I receive this gem in my inbox:

 

After doing a brief Google search on the journal, I find that there are others (1, 2) who have received similar messages. It turns out that the journals published by David Publishing seem to be questionable at best, and likely a scam.

The message from David Publishing continues, claiming that the journal is indexed in all of the following:



★ Database of EBSCO, Massachusetts, USA
★ Chinese Database of CEPS, American Federal Computer Library center (OCLC), USA
★ Chinese Scientific Journals Database, VIP Corporation, Chongqing, P.R.C.
★ Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
★ ASSIA database and LLBA database of ProQuest
★ NSD (Norweigan Social Science Data Service), Database for Statisticson Higher Education (DBH), Norway
★Universe Digital Library Sdn Bhd (UDLSB), Malaysia
★ Excellent papers in ERIC
★ Summon Serials Solutions
★ Google Scholar
★Polish Scholarly Bibliography (PBN)
★ Turkish Education Index
★ CNKI
★ J-GATE
★Scribd Digital Library
★ Airiti
★Academic Key
★Electronic Journals Library (EZB)  
★CiteFactor, USA
★SJournal Index
★Scientific Indexing Services
★New Jour
★ Pubicon Science
 ★Sherpa Romeo
 ★ Scholarsteer
★ WorldCat
★ Infobase Index
★ Free Libs
★ Pubget
★ CrossRef

 Fellow SABERites, beware if you receive this message in your inbox.