OT but maybe interesting: 

If you go down about seven posts on the scholarlyoa site, there's a post about
article spinning, the use of software to substitute synonyms into a previously
published article so that it can't be picked up by plagiarism software. Thanks
to polysemy, the translations are pretty funny. 

People teaching intro courses might enjoy using them during their semantics
unit.

gerard




Quoting Nick Moore <[log in to unmask]>:

>  
> 
> Hi 
> 
> In addition to the valuable info provided by everyone else, I would like
> to add one Open Access journal and one warning. 
> 
> The journal is Functional Linguistics, published by Springer & supported
> by the Halliday Library at Sun Yat-sen University. Details here:
> http://www.functionallinguistics.com/ 
> 
> The warning is that the world of Open Source journals is full of
> predatory publishers, whose main aim is profit rather than the
> dissemination of reliable information. Publishing in these journals can
> seriously damage your academic career. To help through this maze, I
> would recommend the excellent website run by Jeffrey Beall at
> http://scholarlyoa.com/ where he maintains a list of publishers and
> journals to avoid, and catalogues their transgressions. 
> 
> Best wishes 
> 
> Nick Moore 
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> On 2015-10-31 00:02, TEACHLING automatic digest system wrote: 
> 
> > There are 2 messages totaling 251 lines in this issue.
> > 
> > Topics of the day:
> > 
> > 1. open access linguistics jourals
> > 2. OA Linguistics journals (was Re: TEACHLING Digest - 28 Oct 2015 to 29
> Oct
> > 2015 (#2015-35))
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> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:29:09 +0000
> > From: Annabelle Mooney <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: open access linguistics jourals
> > 
> > Hello!
> > I'm aware of two open access journals that don't charge.
> > One is English Language Research at the University of Birmingham
> >
>
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/research/elrjournal/index.aspx
> [1]
> > The other is about to launch and is called Linguistics Unlimited
> > http://linguistics-unlimited.co.uk/index.php/LingsUltd [2]
> > 
> > I think Lingua is also going down this route- and I understand they are
> associated with the Open Library of Humanities
> > https://www.openlibhums.org/ [3]
> > Best
> > Annabelle
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> > Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 13:35:07 +0000
> > From: "Collister, Lauren Brittany" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: OA Linguistics journals (was Re: TEACHLING Digest - 28 Oct
> 2015 to 29 Oct 2015 (#2015-35))
> > 
> > Mostari (and all),
> > 
> > Regarding your question on OA Linguistics / Humanities journals without
> publication fees, I have a few suggestions!
> > 
> > First: The Open Library of Humanities. This is a new project that is both
> humanities megajournal and sub-journals dedicated to specific fields. There
> are no publication fees, and the process of publication is quick and thorough
> (I have experience, as I have a paper almost ready to be published with
> them). It's also really interesting to get the input from editors from
> several different fields of the humanities. http://openlibhums.org/ [4] 
> > 
> > Second: The "Semantics and Pragmatics" LSA journal is Open Access and has
> no publication fees. http://semprag.org/ [5] 
> > 
> > Third: You can also search the Directory of Open Access Journals (doaj.org)
> for journals in any target field. You can narrow the search by those that do
> not charge Article Processing Charges (APCs) as well as many other fields
> including language of publication, peer review style, journal license, etc.
> Here is my search in the "Language and Literature" sub-heading of the DOAJ
> for journals that do not charge APCs, resulting in 637 results:
> http://bit.ly/1OcQVzf [6] 
> > Depending on the particular field your submission might fall under, a
> search in the "Social Sciences" subject area might be worthwhile as well. 
> > 
> > If you have any questions (or if anyone does, for that matter) on how to
> find good Open Access journals, please get in touch. This is part of my day
> job when I'm not teaching linguistics, and I love to help. :) 
> > 
> > Lauren
> > 
> > Lauren B. Collister
> > Scholarly Communications Librarian
> > Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
> > University Library System
> > University of Pittsburgh
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> > 
> > On 10/29/2015 7:39 AM, mostari hind wrote:
> > 
> >> Dear all members list , Many thanks for your concern to answer my question
> on what to teach to Master 1 students in linguistics and language dynamics .
> Basically , this master is composed of many modules that I personally
> conceived the program like ; phonoloy /morphology , dialectology and
> sociolinguitics variations , semantics/pragmatics , and next year , contact
> linguistics and discourse analysis , this is to answer some colleagues who
> proposed me to teach them some concepts in dialectology or discourse . The
> students module is called : linguistics theories and core areas , they should
> master the linguistics theories , know some linguistics areas and know basic
> concepts as they know the back of their hands , I started with structuralism
> / behvaiourism/ chomskyian and post chomskyan area , they have already got
> these notions ( with few details) during their licence formation, in which
> they studied linguitics concepts for 03 years ( 01 h/week) before having
> access to mast!
>  er1 level
> . I find such concepts boring to repeat ! my studnets were interested but I
> would like some interest + excitment Any suggestions? A second question : do
> you know any open access journal in language /linguistics/humainities that
> publish articles without publication fees ? Best Dr Mostari
> > 
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> > 
> > End of TEACHLING Digest - 29 Oct 2015 to 30 Oct 2015 (#2015-36)
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> 
> Links:
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> [1]
>
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/research/elrjournal/index.aspx
> [2] http://linguistics-unlimited.co.uk/index.php/LingsUltd
> [3] https://www.openlibhums.org/
> [4] http://openlibhums.org/
> [5] http://semprag.org/
> [6] http://bit.ly/1OcQVzf
> 


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