Saying predatory publishers and journals are evil may seem a little strong, but they are already infecting their host, like any virus does. In that sense, it could be the death of the scientific archive, which would be a disaster.
We describe what the Directory of Open Access Journals is and the role it plays in both Open Access publishing and in predatory publishing.
Predatory journals make money by getting you to pay money for them to publish your article. It might seem unusual if they offer to waive the fee. In this article we explore why they might do that.
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If you get an email from a predatory journal, you should delete it. Or should you? Here are a few other things you could do.
It can be time consuming looking at a journal and trying to decide if it is a predatory journal. In this article we suggest three quick checks that you can do, whilst not being definitive, it could raise enough concerns for you to decide to ignore that journal.
We look at the effect that publishing in predatory journals has on your CV. In our view, it is it not worth it, but see what you think.
We analyze a journal, to show you some of the thought processes we go through when trying to decide if a journal is predatory or not, and whether we should submit to that journal.