On March 2, as part of the 2015 Scholarship Symposium at Texas A&M University-Commerce, Jeffrey Beall presented Don’t Be Fooled: Recognizing & Avoiding Predatory Publishers.
Mr. Beall alerted us to current scams with scholarly open-access publishing. Mr. Beall is the only monitoring entity (there are no known regulatory bodies to police predatory publishers) and uses his Scholarly Open Access blog, http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/research/, to caution against predatory or questionable publishers.
Mr. Beall shared several tools to help you determine the credibility and quality of scholarly publishers:
This information is available on the CFEI website at http://www.tamuc.edu/facultyStaffServices/centerForFacultyExcellenceAndInnovation/rsca/scholarship.aspx for your reference.
Predatory Publishers:
- Jeffrey Beall’s Scholarly Open Access blog (http://scholarlyoa.com/)
- Criteria for evaluating scholarly open-access publishers and journals (https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/criteria-2015.pdf)
- Black List of Publishers
- Black List of Standalone Journals
- Black List of Hijacked or Counterfeit Journals
- Black List of Misleading Journals
- Video of “Don’t Be Fooled: Recognizing and Avoiding Predatory Publishers” session on 3/2/2015
- White lists developed by your discipline’s professional organizations, institution, college, and/or department
- Databases that include quality peer-reviewed literature, such as Directory of Open Access Journals, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, EBSCOhost Online Research Databases, and Elsevier Scopus
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