The Open-Access Movement Reaches a New Low: Greener Journals

"Greener Journals is a scholarly open-access publisher based in Lagos, Nigeria. The firm publishes twenty open access journals....The publisher doesn’t seem to understand the difference between a publisher and a journal: “Greener Journals (GJ) is an open access journal [sic] that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject [sic].” A link on the publisher’s main page leads to another page that describes open access publishing. Much of the text on that page is lifted from other websites....Few of the journals have any content, and those that do have only a very few articles. This publisher began operations in 2011. Below is a list of Greener Journals’ journal portfolio. I cannot understand why any serious researcher would pay to have their scholarly articles published by this ridiculous publisher...."