http://metadata.posterous.com/description-of-an-open-access-scam
http://scholarlyoa.com/category/scholarly-open-access-publishers/
http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/26/publishing-scam.html

Rossler, I hope you haven’t disbursed the $550 yet… ;-)

http://www.academicjournals.org/conference_announcements.htm

Anyway, for the benefit of the laziest among Lifeboat’s readers, let me paste all of the relevant text from the link:

Beall’s List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers by Jeffrey Beall
2012 Edition

Predatory, open-access publishers are those that unprofessionally exploit the author-pays model of open-access publishing (Gold OA) for their own profit. Typically, these publishers spam professional email lists, broadly soliciting article submissions for the clear purpose of gaining additional income. Operating essentially as vanity presses, these publishers typically have a low article acceptance threshold, with a false-front or non-existent peer review process. Unlike professional publishing operations, whether subscription-based or ethically-sound open access, these predatory publishers add little value to scholarship, pay little attention to digital preservation, and operate using fly-by-night, unsustainable business models.

Academic Journals
This bogus, Nigeria-based publisher has been around for years, and continues to increase its journal fleet of over one hundred titles from all areas of study. Seeking legitimacy, it falsely associates itself with authentic organizations and conferences.
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Recommendation:
Do not do business with the above publishers, including submitting article manuscripts, serving on editorial boards, buying advertising, etc. There are numerous traditional, legitimate journals that will publish your quality work for free, including many legitimate, open-access publishers. If you are involved in any form of scholarly evaluation such as, hiring, tenure / promotion review, or grant funding, be skeptical of articles published by any of these publishers listed above. Reading a list of publications or a vita, it is very difficult to distinguish legitimate journals from the illegitimate ones. One of the tricks the sham publishers use is to assign authentic-sounding and appearing titles to their journals. The presence of these bogus publishers has changed the task of scholarly evaluation, which now needs a keener eye to discern articles published in fraudulent journals.

I see no evidence for the word “falsely” in the above quote. Maybe my readers do not know that Nigeria has more inhabitants than Russia. I am very grateful for what the journal is doing for the world.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/78839736/Beall-s-List-of-Predatory.….shers-2012

YES, it’s the publisher of “African Journal of Mathematics”… ;-)

Here is Jason’s original post: http://elnaschiewatch.blogspot.com/2012/01/bealls-list.html

It is not helpful when CERN says one thing and does another.

Your url to get the first fifty Comments is correct and here it is in full
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/01/can-anyone-explain-why-cern-fears-nothing-more-than-a-scientific-safety-conference/comment-page-1

Kindly read my post again PBy. It is not that obscure. It addresses styles of thought and whether the highest plane of genius may be above you. If not, kindly let us know with show and tell to match the eminent chaos theorist Rossler of Tubingen.

if this is beyond you at the present time, I can lend you my panga with which I am clearing a path on the Rossler give-it-a-try post thread at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/01/attempto-let-me-give-it-a-try/comment-page-1#comment-100241 , after we reach the oasis of new understanding which the Professor has in mind.

Dear all if you like to go on page one of this topic you can add “/comment-page-1” at the end of the url.

Here is the link to page 1 of this blog theme:
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/01/can-anyone-explain-why-cern-fears-nothing-more-than-a-scientific-safety-conference/comment-page-1