There have been a number of papers published in 2021, which have focused on predatory publishing. If you search on Scopus (search carried out 20 Dec 2021), of the 294 papers returned by searching for...
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We recently ran a survey asking if an acknowledgement is required if somebody proof reads your paper. 55.6% said that no acknowledgement was required, with 44.4% saying that an acknowledge should be...
What was the first open access journal? We believe that it is Flora Online that started publishing in January 1987. The journal ceased publication in November 1993, after publishing 29 issues. We...
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...
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...
An ISSN is a way to uniquely identify a serial, which includes scientific journals. This article gives you all you need to know about ISSNs.