[Tyler]

How three MIT students fooled the world of scientific journals
14 April 2015, 12:00 am

                    In recent years, the field of academic publishing has ballooned to an estimated 30,000 peer-reviewed journals churning out some 2 million articles per year. While this growth has led to more scientific scholarship, critics argue that it has also spurred increasing numbers of low-quality "predatory publishers" who spam researchers with weekly "calls for papers" and charge steep fees for articles that they often don't even read before accepting.

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[ivan.moony]

I've been investigating AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) group for publishing some potential materials of mine in the future. First you have to pay a year fee to be a member and only then you are allowed to publish your papers. Sure they have some ten or so financial and other rewards per year for quality material, but that is an industry that I don't approve. I find other options like buying an advertisement page in some popular AI journal at least equal expensive and compromising than being charged to get into those clubs.

The way I find the most usable and the least compromising for publishing scientific material is to actually do (program) something that can be used in commercial world, then sell or give the product bundled with scientific material papers of how you built the thing.

But if your work can't be used for making money, you are doomed to darkness if you are not a member of these expensive clubs.

P.S.
You can always pay Google ads to point to your research home page, but that is a sad option.

[Freddy]

I read the article above, I thought it was amusing and a good old one in the eye for those concerned.

As for your quandary I don't know what to suggest. There must be a lot of people in the same boat.