I  am  guessing than Bentham Open  expanded quickly and has  some questionable journals or editors that may not be good choices. So I would encourage careful checking of the journal.

My experience with one of their journals(Open Orthopedics) has been good in that:
1. I have conducted peer review and rejected papers which were not published
2. I have had my own papers rejected ( with rewrite was able to publish in a traditional journal)
3. They are listed in PubMed- an important thing for authors who want people to find their work
4. They conduct annual  surveys with the editorial board on ways to improve
5. They  review the cvs of potential board members.

They are  not a top tier journal  but not all papers end up in top tier traditional journals.

Once I communicated this on this website years ago ( this email motivated another post ), I found the response dismissive. While the website is one start point for your investigation, you  may need to do some other investigation.  I agree some  clear criteria and  multiple raters with editorial experience would be a more valid rating process than that website- but at least this website has increased awareness of the problem. To avoid misclassification of journals we should consider that some publishers may have all predatory journals and some may have a few; and that that there is a range of low to high quality traditional and open access journals.

Like others I am concerned with proliferation of predatory journals that undermine what I think is an excellent principle- open access publication. 
 

joy macdermid
From: Evidence based health (EBH) [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Richard Saitz [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Re: open-access, be careful

Yes-Juan I thought you had

 they have a list of individual journals and also publishers

I found it on the publisher list


A worrisome thing is that the list is maintained by one person I believe -- done very well, but there is a growing  need for this sort of scrutiny -- something one might want some institution to take on I would imagine....

Best
Rich 

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On Feb 18, 2015, at 1:37 PM, Juan Gérvas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

-thanks, Richard, this was the link i sent a few days ago
-but i could not find Benthan Open, so thanks
-un saludo
-juan gérvas

El 18/02/2015 a las 19:10, Richard Saitz escribió:
Juan
I think the best source for information is here
Beall's list 
And Bentham Open is listed as a 

"Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers"

Best
Rich

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Editor, Evidence-based Medicine

Professor of Community Health Sciences and Medicine
Boston University  

On Feb 18, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Juan Gérvas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

-does anyone know about Bentham Science Publishers?
-its record includes accepting nonsense manuscript for money
http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com.es/2008/03/black-sheep-among-open-access-journals.html
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/06/10/nonsense-for-dollars/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17288-crap-paper-accepted-by-journal.html#.VOS-2yzoghM
-Bentham Science Publishers is not a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association OASPA
http://oaspa.org/
-just in case someone could share information about Bentham Science Publishers
-un saludo
-juan gérvas

El 09/02/2015 a las 10:50, Juan Gérvas escribió:
-fully right, Richard and Amy
-"open-access" is only a way of publishing but with its own peculiar advantages/problems
-what we need is not only a list of this kind about open-access journals, but about any journal and even any institution (there are many named as "institute" or "foundation" that are purely commercial)
-un saludo
-juan gérvas

2015-02-09 3:59 GMT+01:00 Richard Saitz <[log in to unmask]>:
A very useful site Juan.
I would not say, however, that the worry is open access.  The worry is illegitimate unscrupulous and/or predatory journals, which of course could be paper or online, open or closed access etc.
Best,
Rich

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On 4 February 2015 at 06:12, Juan Gérvas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

¡Cuidado! Lista de revistas de acceso libre (open access) que probablemente son "piratas", puro negocio.
Be careful. Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers.
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

-un saludo

-juan gérvas



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