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.

2 comments:

Tom Anderson said...

Yes, I'm receiving unsolicited email from this company. Three years later and the form letter is still almost the same. They don't include an "unsubscribe" option so David Publishing has earned itself a spot in the spam folder.

lyndze and tyler said...

I just received this email, too! Thanks for posting. I was pretty sure it was a scam so I googled it and got you post. Good to know.