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Monday, August 1, 2016
While doing my research writing course I came across an interesting concept Predatory Journals. And as a Librarian we need to educate the researchers on these low quality journals and how not to fall prey to them.
Predatory Journals is a term coined by Librarian Jeffery Beall. According to Jeffery Beall "Predatory open-access publishers are those that unprofessionally exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit. That is to say, they operate as scholarly vanity presses and publish articles in exchange for the author fee. They are characterized by various level of deception and lack of transparency in their operations. For example, some publishers may misrepresent their location, stating New York instead of Nigeria, or they may claim a stringent peer-review where none really exists."
These journals are condemned by scientific communities as they are scam or fake journals sending phishing emails offering open access publishing in exchange of money. Many websites have given a criteria how to recognize the predatory journals. When publishing an article the author has to do a background check on the publisher and these may include
1) A person can check the black listed journals by Beall to see if its been listed there. Jeffery Beall has published a list of predatory journals as Beall's List which regularly gets up dated.
2) One can also see if its listed in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) which is an open access list of journals and reliable as they have a specific criteria for journals.
3) Publishers authenticity can be checked by their association to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); the International Association of Scientific, Technical, & Medical Publishers (STM) or the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
4) As these predatory journals are not indexed and any information published in them are lost, one can see if they are indexed in PubMedCentral or Web of Science. Apart from these the journals policies - are they transparent, their editorial board members etc can also be checked.
Many websites have also listed different criteria for evaluation or checking the authenticity of the journals or a researcher can also take help of librarians to get a better understanding of open access journals and the publishing world.
References:
http://crln.acrl.org/content/76/3/132.full
http://qcc.libguides.com/open/predatorypublishing
Predatory Journals is a term coined by Librarian Jeffery Beall. According to Jeffery Beall "Predatory open-access publishers are those that unprofessionally exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit. That is to say, they operate as scholarly vanity presses and publish articles in exchange for the author fee. They are characterized by various level of deception and lack of transparency in their operations. For example, some publishers may misrepresent their location, stating New York instead of Nigeria, or they may claim a stringent peer-review where none really exists."
These journals are condemned by scientific communities as they are scam or fake journals sending phishing emails offering open access publishing in exchange of money. Many websites have given a criteria how to recognize the predatory journals. When publishing an article the author has to do a background check on the publisher and these may include
1) A person can check the black listed journals by Beall to see if its been listed there. Jeffery Beall has published a list of predatory journals as Beall's List which regularly gets up dated.
2) One can also see if its listed in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) which is an open access list of journals and reliable as they have a specific criteria for journals.
3) Publishers authenticity can be checked by their association to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); the International Association of Scientific, Technical, & Medical Publishers (STM) or the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
4) As these predatory journals are not indexed and any information published in them are lost, one can see if they are indexed in PubMedCentral or Web of Science. Apart from these the journals policies - are they transparent, their editorial board members etc can also be checked.
Many websites have also listed different criteria for evaluation or checking the authenticity of the journals or a researcher can also take help of librarians to get a better understanding of open access journals and the publishing world.
References:
http://crln.acrl.org/content/76/3/132.full
http://qcc.libguides.com/open/predatorypublishing
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