Directory of Open Access Publishers release new criteria for special issues
The Directory of Open Access Journals has released its criteria for special issues. We comment on these.
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To demonstrate that a journal is predatory sting operations have been carried out. A nonsense paper to see if it gets through the peer review and subsequently published. In this article we look at a...
We often get asked "How do I identify a predatory journal?" But, we can turn this on its head and ask "How can I identify a NON-predatory journal?" If this article we explore this.
We give a number of tips to enable you to avoid reviewing for a predatory journal.
In 2014 a journal accepted a paper that just repeated the phrase "Get me off your f*@^ing email list". This article looks at the history of the paper, as well as the journal in question.
If you are new to Predatory Publishing, we suggest three Open Access articles that you might find useful as a gentle introduction.