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Grateful acknowledgement is given to the following for content and organizational strategies borrowed from their guides on predatory publishing:
Scholarly Publishing: Predatory Publishing by Ruth Bueter at Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University
Evaluating Open Access Journals by Lisa Palmer at Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Medical School
Scholarly Communication: Predatory Publishers by Rosemary Arneson at University of Mary Washington Libraries
What is predatory publishing?
While there are many high-quality, peer-reviewed open access publications, there are also open access publishers that engage in unethical practices.
"Predatory publishers" is a term used to describe opportunistic open access publishers that charge publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals. [1]
Predatory publishers share several characteristics:[2]
- They engage in questionable business practices, such as charging excessive author fees or failing to disclose publication fees to potential authors.
- They fail to follow accepted standards of scholarly publishing, particularly in regards to peer review.
- They exist to make money by taking advantage of the "author-pays model" of open access journal publishing,* and have no interest in promoting scholarship or advancing knowledge.