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Stevan Harnad
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Scientific Journals International
<info_at_scientificjournals.org> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Harnard,
>
> Our lawyers have advised that we submit the following information for
> posting to your forum. I hope you would agree that there will be no legal,
> moral or ethical justification for censoring these simple facts.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Dr. A. Niaz
> SJI
>
> ____________________
>
> It appears that there have been some misunderstanding and misperception
> about the peer review process of SJI. We hope the following information
> will help.
>
> 1. Reviewers' (3,000-plus) contact info is now posted on our Web site.
> Anyone can contact them to verify the nature of our peer-review process
> (http://www.scientificjournals.org/editorial_board.htm).
>
> 2. One can read the comments of many of our reviewers and editors about the
> peer-review process of SJI at
> http://www.scientificjournals.org/comments_of_support.htm.
>
> 3. Anyone can come to our office to see thousands of emails that provide
> evidence of peer reviews we have conducted since the launch of SJI.
>
> 4. If anyone has doubts about whether or not SJI or any other open-access
> journal uses a peer-review system, he or she can easily verify this by
> submitting a paper to see if it goes through a peer-review process.
>
> 5. One can also become a reviewer for an open-access journal to see if he or
> she is asked to review any manuscripts.
>
> ___________________
Received on Mon Oct 06 2008 - 14:06:53 BST