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.