What is Open Access Publishing? It seeks to make scientific research papers freely available to anybody who wants to read them, at no cost to the reader. There are two primary types of open access publishing – Gold Open Access and Green Open Access. These sit alongside a traditional publishing model where readers have to pay to read scientific papers.
Predatory publishing is the practice of publishers/journals charging fees to publish scientific articles, yet not providing the services that would normally be expected of a scientific journal. This includes not having robust peer review, thus not ensuring the quality and integrity of the papers which will form part of the scientific archive.
We expect scientific publishers to follow certain standards. This is especially important in order to maintain the integrity of the scientific archive.
In this article, we touch upon three elements and question whether a predatory publisher is able to uphold these principles.
In this article we put a spotlight on, Beall, J. 2009. Bentham Open. The Charleston Advisor 11(1) 29-32. This paper was the first paper by Jeffrey Beall to discuss predatory publishing. In the paper, he analyzes the publisher Bentham Open which, at the time, published 236 journals.
We suggest that you stop tying to identify predatory journals. Instead, spend time finding legitimate journals and, if you are not sure, just move on. The world is not short of journals that you can submit to.
We ran a Twitter poll where we asked is there was a legitimate reason to publish in a predatory journal? This article presents, and discusses, the results.
The acronym for the International Scientific Index is ISI. Is this just a coincidence that this is the same term often used for the Web of Science’s impact factor? In this article, we explore this question.
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.
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