有一份期刊叫做Journal of Universal Rejection (JofUR)。这份期刊的建立宗旨,就是一个字:拒。所有投稿,不分质量,都会被拒掉。徽章拉丁文意为“被拒是肯定的,时间是不知道的”(仿拉丁谚语mors certa, hora incerta)。
虽然有这个显而易见的缺点,但是编辑们还是给出了向此期刊投稿的几个重要理由:无需为你的手稿而没日没夜地焦虑,你会百分之百地知道它最后的结局。没有版面费。既然烂期刊都是来者不拒,那么我们的期刊作为它们的极端对立面,岂不是最好的期刊?面对如此独一无二的好期刊,哪怕仅仅是投稿也是巨大的荣誉。投稿之后你依然拥有完整的版权,就算我们还没有完成评审你也可以随意投给其它期刊。决定通常(但不总是)能在数小时内给出。
本刊每年出版4期,订阅费$9999.99。机构和图书馆订阅价格面议。我们也不知道是电子版还是印刷版,因为还没有一个人定过。
部分过刊目录:March 2009 (Vol 1, No 1) contents: (空) June 2009 (Vol 1, No 2) contents: (空) September 2009 (Vol 1, No 3) contents: (空) December 2009 (Vol 1, No 4) contents: (空 - 因为我们放假了) March 2010 (Vol 2, No 1) contents: (空 )June 2010 (Vol 2, No 2) contents: (空 ) September 2010 (Vol 2, No 3) contents: (空 ) December 2010 (Vol 2, No 4) contents: (服务器崩溃,内容丢失——应该也是空)。
虽然内容是空的,但是他们的博客会定期刊登拒信选摘。
比如这篇很贱的回复……亮点自寻……Dear N , It is my pleasure to respond to your submission of "The Anxiety of Reproduction in Classical Greek Political Theory" to the Journal of Universal Rejection.It is getting hard to keep up with even a trickle of submissions here at JofUR. It is sadly true that we're approaching the response-time of some other well- respected journals. (It is a funny story--I once had a paper out for review for over two years before retracting it to submit elsewhere.) It is probably all caused by the fact that I got a job. It is causing me to have so little time that, for example, with your paper, I have decided to just consider the first two words: "It is..." It is very bad form to start a paper with "It is..." It is the worst of beginnings! It is grounds for immediate rejection. It is rejected.Best regards, Caleb Emmons Editor-in-Chief Journal of Universal Rejection。
好吧,事实上他家还有很多周边……链接就不给了以免广告嫌疑……(这是个婴儿服)不过我觉得最坑爹的是这个内裤……