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29-509: The company publishes theses, research notes, and dissertations through its e-commerce bookstores. Its publishing methods have been questioned for the soliciting of manuscripts from individuals, and for providing authors with the appearance of a peer-reviewed publishing history. OmniScriptum is designated as non-academic by the Norwegian Scientific Index , and its subsidiary Lambert Academic Publishing has been described as

58-414: A predatory vanity press which does "not apply the basic standards of academic publishing such as peer-review, editorial or proof-reading processes." The company also offers print-to order publishing for fiction authors. It previously specialized in publishing and selling Misplaced Pages articles, but has stated that the practice of publishing Misplaced Pages content ended in 2013. The first publishing house of

87-566: A form of kudzu weed proliferation in book publishing. In January 2011 German professor Debora Weber-Wulff, in Copy, Shake, and Paste (a blog about plagiarism and scientific misconduct), referred to OMS as a spam publisher, which has been further confirmed in a blog post at Guide2Research. Omniscriptum Publishing Group has 27 subsidiaries (the date of creation and headquarters are in brackets): Norwegian Scientific Index CRIStin ( C urrent R esearch I nformation S ys t em i n N orway)

116-751: A judge for the World Fantasy Awards. An active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , she is a co-founder, with AC Crispin , of the Committee on Writing Scams, and serves as its vice-chair. She maintains the Writer Beware website and blog , which provide information and warnings on writing related schemes, scams, and pitfalls. For this work, she received the SFWA Service Award in 2009. She

145-613: A number of trade journals, newspapers and other non-academic publications. In 2021 the National Publication Committee introduced a new level called "level X" for journals and publishers that they are soliciting comments on whether it should be approved or not. Becoming operational in the autumn of 2021, the National Publication Committee linked the creation of level X to concerns regarding the publisher MDPI . The new level became active in September 2021; of

174-517: A team of acquisitions editors , who search the Internet for academic authors and invite them by unsolicited e-mail for their manuscripts. The editorial team sends emails to people who have written a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation and whose college library has a web-accessible catalog. In April 2010 Omniscriptum founded an imprint devoted to religion , spirituality , and Christian theology : Fromm Verlag . In October 2010 Dictus Publishing

203-543: Is a comprehensive Norwegian bibliographic database established by the Norwegian government , aimed at covering all academic publication channels worldwide, i.e. academic journals , series with ISSN, and scholarly presses . It is operated by the government-owned company Norwegian Centre for Research Data on behalf of the Royal Ministry of Education and Research , and forms one of the key parts that together make up

232-611: Is also used in other countries than Norway, both formally and informally. For example, South Africa started using the index in 2016. The Norwegian Scientific Index also forms the basis for the Nordic List, a joint Nordic bibliographic database that is developed under the auspices of the Nordic Council and the governments of the Nordic countries . As of February 2023 , the Nordic List website from its 2018 presentation

261-589: Is hardly another platform for quick and better processing of information than Misplaced Pages" for customers "who want to be informed on a specific subject" in book form, though they can "have online everything free of charge ". Omniscriptum has edited 22,000 works. According to the company, the last compilation of Misplaced Pages articles was published in 2013. The company has stated that it stopped the practice of publishing Misplaced Pages content in order to focus on "original academic (and) special interest authors." Omniscriptum's business practices have been questioned for profiting by

290-495: Is intended to cover at least 80% of all serious journals and publishers in a given discipline. Level 2 is the highest rating and is reserved for the internationally most prestigious journals and publishers within the discipline. "Level 2" status is granted by national expert committees for each discipline, and may be given to a maximum of 20% of all publication channels in a given discipline. Funding of research institutions in Norway

319-893: Is not functional. The responsibility for the European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences, now called ERIH PLUS , was transferred from the European Science Foundation to the Norwegian Centre for Research Data in 2014 and is now available on the same website as the Norwegian Scientific Index. Victoria Strauss Victoria Strauss (born 1955 in Exeter, New Hampshire )

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348-531: Is now a sister project of the Norwegian Scientific Index, after it was transferred from the European Science Foundation to the Norwegian Centre for Research Data in 2014. The CRIStin system traces its roots to the research documentation system of the University of Oslo , that was developed during the 1990s and known as Forskningsdokumentasjon ved Universitetet i Oslo ("Research Documentation at

377-465: Is partially tied to the Norwegian Scientific Index, and only recognised "level 1" or "level 2" publications generate funding. "Level 2" publications generate significantly increased funding compared to "level 1" publications. Journals and publishers that are designated as not academic are identified as "level 0," which means that they don't count in the official academic career system or public funding of research institutions. The "0" rating may imply that

406-640: Is the author of nine fantasy novels for adults and young adults, including the Stone series ( The Arm of the Stone and The Garden of the Stone ) and the Way of Arata series ( The Burning Land and The Awakened City ). She has written hundreds of book reviews for magazines and ezines, including SF Site and Fantasy magazine, and her articles on writing have appeared in Writer's Digest and elsewhere. In 2006, she served as

435-513: Is the national research information system of Norway , and is owned by the Royal Ministry of Education and Research . CRIStin documents all scholarly publications by Norwegian researchers, and complements the BIBSYS database, which focuses on storage and retrieval of data pertaining to research, teaching and learning – historically metadata related to library resources. CRIStin is the first database of its kind worldwide. The CRIStin system includes

464-671: The National Taiwan University . The titles were published as edited by Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, and John McBrewster who are also listed as authors. As of 21 December 2011, 180,818 titles were listed on the OMS bookshop. Betascript lists Lambert M. Surhone  [ de ] , Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, Mariam T. Tennoe, and Susan F. Henssonow as editors, giving an additional 356,765 titles as of 21 December 2011. Regarding its publishing strategies, Alphascript asserted that: "There

493-465: The Norwegian Scientific Index , a comprehensive government-owned bibliographic database aimed at covering and rating all serious academic publication channels worldwide, including academic journals and publishers . Publication channels may be nominated by Norwegian academics, and the database does not accept self-nominations by publishers. The index includes journal -level ratings and book publisher -level ratings. Publishers and journals may be assigned

522-535: The 13 initial journals included in the level, five were MDPI journals. In 2022, 10 of the 13 initial journals are rated as non-academic (level 0), while one ( Geosciences ) has been rated as academic (level 1). As of May 2022, there were 7 journals in the list, out of which 2 from the initial journals. As of February 2024 , there is one publisher ( Bentham Science Publishers and 46 individual journals in this list, including 13 from MDPI, nine from Hindawi , and seven from Elsevier . The Norwegian Scientific Index

551-476: The CRIStin system. The index divides journals and publishers considered to meet academic quality criteria (including peer review) into "level 1" and "level 2." Journals and publishers are rated separately, with journal-level ratings applying to journal publications and publisher-level ratings applying to books. Level 1 is the standard rating for publication channels considered to meet academic quality criteria, and

580-567: The Norwegian Scientific Index is also used in other countries than Norway, e.g. in Sweden and South Africa , and it is the model of similar indices in other countries, including Denmark . It also serves as the basis for a joint Nordic bibliographic database that is being developed under the auspices of the Nordic governments and the Nordic Council . Additionally, the European database ERIH PLUS

609-539: The University of Oslo"), abbreviated ForskDok. Until 2010/2011 Norway had two competing research documentation databases. Almost all colleges and universities used the BIBSYS FORSKDOK database, that was developed from 1991 as part of the national BIBSYS system, itself established in 1972. The University of Oslo, the country's preeminent university, chose to develop its own and similarly named system. In 2004,

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638-832: The group was founded in Düsseldorf in 2002 by Wolfgang Philipp Müller, and transferred to Saarbrücken in August 2005. The Mauritian office was established in April 2007 and was managed from 2008 up until May 2011 by David Benoit Novel, followed by Reezwan Ghanty. In 2007 the group began distributing its publications through Lightning Source , Amazon , and the German company Books on Demand. Omniscriptum specializes in German , Russian , Spanish , French , and English dissertations , theses , and research projects. Its business model involves

667-422: The publication channel lacks adequate peer review or that it in some other way doesn't meet basic quality standards for academic journals, that it is a trade journal with no academic aspirations or some other form of entirely non-academic publication, or that it is regarded as predatory . Such publication channels are not systematically included in the index, and the rating may, but doesn't necessarily, indicate that

696-414: The publication channel was nominated for "level 1" status and failed to be approved as such, or that it has been downgraded from "level 1" status, e.g. due to predatory publishing practices. Some Norwegian publications are included in the database and identified as level 0 mainly for legacy reasons, that is, they were included in the database's predecessors before the rating system was invented; they include

725-402: The rating 1 (standard rating for publication channels that meet basic academic quality criteria), 2 (rating for internationally leading publication channels), 0 (non-academic) or X (possibly predatory publication channels). The database was started at the University of Oslo , but later became a national system operated on behalf of the government. As the first and largest database of its kind,

754-418: The research documentation system of the University of Oslo formed the basis for a joint system, renamed Frida, for the University of Oslo and the then three other Norwegian universities, but excluding the country's many colleges and other research institutions. In 2010, Frida was transferred to the government and became a national research documentation system, and was renamed CRIStin. The BIBSYS FORSKDOK database

783-620: The sale of unacclaimed works and for insufficiently disclosing that content is available elsewhere. In November 2009 an article in the Swiss newspaper Berner Zeitung described Omniscriptum's practices as questionable. The paper faulted Omniscriptum for not disclosing that the books it was publishing were academic dissertations, for publishing works that received a passing grade, and for charging high prices. American writer Victoria Strauss characterized OMS as "an academic author mill ", while Pagan Kennedy notes that OMS's practices are comparable to

812-738: Was launched to publish political texts related to the European Union . Various branches of the company, including Alphascript Publishing (created in April 2009), Betascript Publishing (created in January 2010), Fastbook Publishing (created in July 2009), and Doyen Verlag , have published books consisting of compilations of Misplaced Pages articles. These books are widespread and have been purchased or acquired by various libraries and academic institutions in Europe and Asia; many copies can be found at

841-579: Was then closed in 2011. CRIStin is being integrated into the National Science Archive ( Nasjonalt vitenarkiv ). Level x are publication channels where CRIStin are uncertain whether the publication channel should be approved or not, in light of current criteria and available information. As long as the publication channel are at level X, the level it had before will be the counting level in terms of publication points. The Norwegian Scientific Index (Norwegian: Norsk vitenskapsindeks , NVI)

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