Journals Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

["Hamaker, Charles" <cahamake@uncc.edu>]

Forward with permission of the author of the post - See below
Chuck Hamaker

  ___________________________

Bibliographers are invited to read an article by David Bade of 
the University of Chicago, entitled "The Content of Journals 
Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.: Political History and 
Culture of Russia and Current Politics and Economics of Russia, 
Eastern and Central Europe." Here is his abstract:

  "A look at the contents of some journals published by Nova 
revealed many issues which contained no original materials at 
all. The journals show a pattern of entire books about Russia 
from the early 20th century being reprinted chapter by chapter as 
though they were separately titled articles. Material from US 
government documents, Congressional Research Service reports, and 
material excerpted from other recent public-domain sources have 
been combined, sometimes with one or more original articles to 
produce journals costing between 700 and 900 US dollars 
annually."

Although the article investigates only titles that concern 
Russia, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, Nova 
Science publishes journals in many other fields as well.

The full article has been posted on our IC networking site at 
http://infocenter.stanford.edu/novascience. Feel free to post 
comments about the article on that site.

Karen
-----------------------
Karen Rondestvedt
Curator for Slavic & East European Collections Green Library East 345A
rondest@stanford.edu
(650) 725-1052  fax (650) 725-1068