{"id":1904,"date":"2014-11-21T10:22:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T17:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:19:21","slug":"sham-journal-accepts-totally-absurd-but-completely-appropriate-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2014\/11\/21\/sham-journal-accepts-totally-absurd-but-completely-appropriate-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Sham Journal Accepts Totally Absurd But Completely Appropriate Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/sham-journal-accepts-totally-absurd-but-completely-appr-1661329028\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1905\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/11\/mailinglist.png?w=300\" alt=\"mailinglist\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/11\/mailinglist.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/11\/mailinglist-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/11\/mailinglist-624x354.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I love that this happened. It&#8217;s not exactly a library shenanigan, but it&#8217;s library-related. Well done, David Mazi\u00e8res and Eddie Kohler! They submitted a sham paper (full of swears!) to a sham journal in 2005 to make a point (and make a lot of people laugh).<\/p>\n<p>Recently, another scholar,\u00a0Peter Vamplew, sent the same sham paper to a different sham journal and received an acceptance (contingent on receipt of $150). The journal even sent a sham &#8220;reviewer report,&#8221; re-posted in full at <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyoa.com\/2014\/11\/20\/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-laced-anti-spam-paper\/\">Scholarly Open Access<\/a>. Apparently, the sham paper is &#8220;excellent&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Steve Lawson and <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/sham-journal-accepts-totally-absurd-but-completely-appr-1661329028\">io9<\/a> (from whom I stole the headline).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love that this happened. It&#8217;s not exactly a library shenanigan, but it&#8217;s library-related. Well done, David Mazi\u00e8res and Eddie Kohler! They submitted a sham paper (full of swears!) to a sham journal in 2005 to make a point (and make a lot of people laugh). Recently, another scholar,\u00a0Peter Vamplew, sent the same sham paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-uI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}