FWIW Elsevier is known to be the worst of the major publishers. They publish several of the best field-specific journals and hundreds of incredibly low ranked journals, but sell them bundled to universities so that the subscription count of the low journals (at least electronically) goes up. You'll even find "creation science" in some of the unread ones I believe.
With open access publishing becoming a more prominent model the creation of new electronic only journals is happening like wildfire. They solicit directly to scientists trying to get people to publish in them (probably for a fee). Here's one that landed in my junk mail box today:
"The Analytical Chemistry : An Indian Journal" is devoted to the rapid publication of original and significant research in the fundamental theory, practice and application of analytical and bioanalytical science including miniaturization of analytical systems, bioanalyses, chromatography, mass spectrometry, electrophoresis, electrochemistry, sampling and sample handling, atomic and molecular spectroscopy. All contributions shall be rigorously refereed and selecting on the basis of quality and originality of the work as well as the breadth of interest to readers. The journal publishes the most significant new research in all phases of analytical chemistry being done in the world today, thus ensuring its scientific priority.
The thing is, Elsevier and other for-profit publishers frequently make the argument that where they provide value over e-journals is that they have the clout to guarantee the peer review process... and there may be some merit there, since any yahoo (e.g. crazy creationists) can create their own e-journal where they select the "peers" for review. But the hypocrisy is palpable if the for-profit publishers have no integrity anyway....
And PalArch! Three different journals under a common umbrella:
"The PalArch Foundation offers possibilities for fast, scientific and accessible publication. The journals are so-called web based publications and publish scientific papers in various disciplines.
The journals currently accept submissions in the fields of archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, vertebrate palaeontology and archaeology of northwest Europe."
With open access publishing becoming a more prominent model the creation of new electronic only journals is happening like wildfire. They solicit directly to scientists trying to get people to publish in them (probably for a fee). Here's one that landed in my junk mail box today:
"The Analytical Chemistry : An Indian Journal" is devoted to the rapid publication of original and significant research in the fundamental theory, practice and application of analytical and bioanalytical science including miniaturization of analytical systems, bioanalyses, chromatography, mass spectrometry, electrophoresis, electrochemistry, sampling and sample handling, atomic and molecular spectroscopy. All contributions shall be rigorously refereed and selecting on the basis of quality and originality of the work as well as the breadth of interest to readers. The journal publishes the most significant new research in all phases of analytical chemistry being done in the world today, thus ensuring its scientific priority.
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"The PalArch Foundation offers possibilities for fast, scientific and accessible publication. The journals are so-called web based publications and publish scientific papers in various disciplines.
The journals currently accept submissions in the fields of archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, vertebrate palaeontology and archaeology of northwest Europe."
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