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With a track record of successful organization of several scientific events across the globe that also support the vast portfolio of open access peer reviewed journals, OMICS Group reached the pinnacle of success in a short span through constant and tireless efforts. The principal activities of the OMICS Publishing Group contribute to scientific knowledge and the maximum interaction between learning and practising community along with scope of industry partnerships. The Group has drafted measures to deal with challenges to keep up its reputation and carry on its mission
OMICS Publishing Group is glad to announce its recent initiative of acquiring journals from reputed publishers. So far journals have been acquired from Aston Journals (USA), Ashdin Publishers (USA), LibPubMedia (UK), La Prensa Medica (Argentina) & Oral Health and Dental Management (Romania), respectively.
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The claims from various rivals and the doubts over the authentic nature of the journals has fuelled reputation issues that the OMICS Group is courageous enough to tackle, despite the onslaught of rumours alleging fake editors and manuscripts. The open access journals are tracked and handled using standard tool such as the Editorial ManagerŪ system by a vendor, and a credible quality check team.
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The open access journals are indexed in standard platforms that are recognised in scientific circles. The reputation of open access journals indexed by these platforms ought to be at a higher level than other scholarly publications. The OMICS Publishing Group invites critics to have an independent evaluation of the number of journals and the quality of the same for the purpose of its reputation, in its right as an open access publisher, without deliberately defaming any other entity.
The OMICS Group conferences have managed to forge learning collaborations between scientists in the concerned discipline. The conferences organized since five years have witnessed the participation of representatives from recognised bodies. The year 2012 witnessed 50 such events and has been recorded in the concerned rosters. The exact dates and proceedings can be found on the official website as part of the reports of past conferences. The organizing of such events is supported by well-known sponsors in the respective fields like biotechnology with fairly good reputation.
The concept of open access publishing has been labelled by certain groups as fake or dubious, and that those are into active spam, while a scientific organization does not have the means for safeguarding itself from recurring complaints. The wiki pages and the content in Wikipedia about open access publishing speak volumes of its benefits. Nevertheless, it is high time for the publishing entities and open access advocates to maintain reputation and utilize their resources to preventing of scam and building more positive review and tackling fake claims. As with any other system in place, the open access movement has witnessed its own bad times with its opponents targeting the industry with the blame of predatory approach. |
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