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American Research Journals Inc., is maintaining 18 open access online international journals list including the journals on Agricultural Sciences, Biosciences, Engineering and Medical journals.

ARJ's mission is to provide a creative platform for highly qualified authors to publish their open access journals and academic journals on a global platform to a broad audience.

ARJ's mission is to provide a creative platform for highly qualified authors to publish their open access journals and academic journals on a global platform to a broad audience.

American research journals publishes the most rapid and reliable information of open access journals in the development area of agricultural sciences.

Elsevier, in cooperation with some pharmaceutical companies, published over 5 journal-like entitities from 2000-2008. These "journals" were given names that sounded basically reputable, but were essentially reprints of works that appeared in other Elsevier journals and featured works that touted the benefits of drugs produced by these drug companies.

As more journals shift from being run by university presses and scholarly societies to corporate entities, the goal is better management, better sales (since packages of journals are frequently sold together) and economies of scale. The fear of some involved in journal publishing is that corporate interests will limit the role of scholars in making key decisions.

THE world's largest medical publisher asked the manufacturers of anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx which articles they wanted to include in a so-called medical journal on bone health.

I am honored that you have chosen me as the subject of your journalism school graduate thesis. At the behest of your instructor, you e-mailed me to ask how I've "built my personal brand over the years." I'm answering with this column.

Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication

Elsevier's Ethics Guidelines for Journals

Government interference with journalism is a problem, but how do you address it in countries with different forms of government and views on freedom?

Blog dedicated to ethics of journal publishing. (Group is based in England but many of the topics seem universal.)

f all published research anyway so it does really matter much whether most journals are "real" or not--m

A math journal published by Elsevier published over 300 research articles written by the Editor-in-Chief. The articles appear to have bypassed the peer-review process entirely.

More shady medical journal practice uncovered.

Elsevier journal pricing backlash leads to a boycott.

Here is some information about open access and the Public Knowledge Project. This piece generated a lot of comments, which are also worth reading.

"If copying is the sincerest form of flattery, then journals are publishing a lot of amazingly flattering science. Of course to most of us, the authors of such reports would best be labeled plagiarists - and warrant censure, not praise."