This not a joke. I keep getting these emails, like the one below, encouraging me to publish in an online open access journal. This one comes from the Center for Promoting Ideas. Really, its named the Center for Promoting Ideas. They published 24 issues of this particular journal, the International Journal of Humanities and social Sciences, last year. I looked at one of the issues, and it appeared to contain about 40 articles. They charge authors $200 per article and publish six different journals. If you published 24 issues of 6 journals with 40 articles each, charging $200 to each author, you could bring in $1,152,000. Maybe I should get into the online journal business.
Their standards for peer review are clearly pretty rigorous. You have to submit by December 31 to get your paper in the January 31 issue.
Call for
Papers
International
Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS)
ISSN
2220-8488 (Print), 2221- 0989 (Online)
International
Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS)
is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed international journal published by
Center for Promoting Ideas, USA. The main objective of IJHSS is to
provide an intellectual platform for the international scholars. IJHSS aims to
promote interdisciplinary studies in humanities and social science and become
the leading journal in humanities and social science in the world.
The journal
publishes research papers in the fields of humanities and social science such
as anthropology, business studies, communication studies, corporate
governance ,criminology, cross-cultural
studies ,demography, development studies, economics, education, ethics,
geography, history, industrial
relations, information science, international
relations, law, linguistics, library science, media studies, methodology, philosophy, political science, population
Studies, psychology, public administration, sociology, social
welfare, linguistics ,literature, paralegal, performing arts (music, theatre
& dance), religious studies ,visual arts, women studies and so
on.
The
journal is published in both print and online versions.
The
journal is now indexed with and included in Cabell’s, Ulrich’s, DOAJ, Index
Copernicus International, EBSCO and Gale. Moreover the journal is under the
indexing process with ISI, ERIC, Econlit, Scopus and Journalseek.
IJHSS
publishes
original papers, review papers, conceptual framework, analytical and simulation
models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book
reviews.
IJHSS
is inviting papers for Vol. 4 No. 1 which is scheduled to be published on January 31, 2014. Last date of submission: December 31, 2013.However, an
early submission will get preference in case of review and publication process.
For
more information, visit the official website of the journal www.ijhssnet.com
With
thanks,
Dr.
J. Sabrina Mims-Cox
The
Chief Editor, International Journal of Humanities and Social Science
(IJHSS)
Austan Goolsbee