Poracom Academic Publishers doesn't seem to have its own web site. If anyone has more information about it, please drop me a line.
Update. Klaus Graf has found the web site for a Nigerian software company named Poracom. This is clearly the Poracom behind the IJHR, although nothing at the web site refers to Poracom Academic Publishers. Poracom has written some software (journal management software?) powering IJHR and another, older OA journal, Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, published by the Pharmacotherapy Group at the University of Benin. Klaus has also found that IJHR charges no publication fees but requires authors to transfer copyright. It removes price barriers, not permission barriers. (Thanks, Klaus.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/30/2008 03:36:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
