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Work interests: research, editing, science communication
Affiliation/website: National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Preferred contact method: Any
Preferred contact language(s): English, German
Contact: email = researchcooperative-at-gmail-dot-com
Favourite publications: Various, and especially the open access versions of older journals with effective review systems
Founding Member
Affiliations: 1996-present: National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka. 1995: Freelance editor, Kyoto. 1994: JSPS Research Visitor, Kyoto University, Kyoto. 1993: Research Visitor, Australian National University, Canberra. 1991: Visiting Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.1990: STA Fellow, National Institute for Ornamental Plants, Vegetables, and Tea (NIVOT), Ano, Japan
Contact: National Museum of Ethnology, Senri Expo Park, Suita City, Osaka, Japan 565-8511
Biographical: Established the Research Cooperative in 2001
Favourite Publications: Various
Cleaning up our network
As a few members have pointed out, our network has attracted a variety of untrustworthy journals and publishers.
This is a real problem.
I should try to protect our members by not supporting such businesses, and should avoid having our network seen as guilty by association.
This morning I spent a few hours checking the websites and contact links of various journals and publishers, and have eliminated the support pages for several. I have also suspended a number of anonymous members associated with the publishers and journals concerned. Since the members choose to be anonymous, or choose to represent an anonymous organisation, I have not informed them about my decision. From an internet security point of view, it is better not to communicate with them at all.
I have become quite ruthless about suspending or deleting material produced by or on behalf of anonymously edited and managed journals and publishers.
I have also upgraded the criteria for accepting journals and publisher in my comments on:
Journals of no repute, and journal traps.
I strongly recommend reading these comments if you are tempted to submit work to an online journal you are not familiar with!
