Bogus scholarly society agrees to publish papers without peer review

Background Briefing exposes the predatory practices of an open access publisher that claims to be one of Sydney\u27s leading scientific associations. The Australian Society for Commerce Industry and Engineering (SCIE) is one of several hundred organisations identified by Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian in Denver, Colorado, as \u27potential, possible or probable predatory scholarly open access publishers\u27. Posing as an international student named Rajita Dhital, Background Briefing emailed the SCIE asking to become a member of the society. A scholarly publisher that claims to follow \u27world best academic publishing protocol\u27 has agreed to publish an academic paper \u27immediately without peer review\u27 in exchange for a $704 fee. Executive producer: Chris Bulloc