[GOAL] Predatory Publishing

[Küsters, Ulrike]

Dear All,

it is a complex mesh of rewuired actions and it will probably not be sufficient only to look at what researchers can do better or how they can be better supported. I found this interview on the ScholarlyKitchen blog to be quite insightful [1]: It offers a 6 fold-advise to counteract PredatoryPublishing<https://twitter.com/hashtag/PredatoryPublishing?src=hash>:

·        researchers (self-educate),

·        institutions & libraries (support),

·        funders (quality audits),

·        journals (increase transparency),

·        regulatory bodies (adopt policies),

·        the public (advocate and participate in standards & ethics).

[1] https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/12/05/illegitimate-journals-stop-interview-kelly-cobey-larissa-shamseer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A

Kind regards
Ulrike Küsters

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Von: goal-bounces at eprints.org <goal-bounces at eprints.org> Im Auftrag von Reckling, Falk
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2018 15:50
An: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal at eprints.org>
Betreff: Re: [GOAL] Predatory Publishing

Hi Richard,

1) A number of actions are mentioned in the response, the most important one is to support DOAJ, to publish publication costs via Open APC and make publishing contracts openly in the future.

2) There is no reliable empirical evidence that the phenomenon of predatory publishing has increased massively over time.

3) There is still a problem of definition: Currently all sorts of things are subsumed under predatory publishing. This ranges from naive, under-funded, unprofessional, joke to profit-seeking and fake. That was one reason why Beall's black list was useless, not to mention Crusaderism and missing checks and balances.

In short, we should observe and scientifically analyse the phenomenon, but also not overestimate and panic.

Best

Falk



Von: goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org> <goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org>> Im Auftrag von Richard Poynder
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2018 15:22
An: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal at eprints.org<mailto:goal at eprints.org>>
Betreff: Re: [GOAL] Predatory Publishing

Thanks for posting this Falk. I have yet to see concerted action taken anywhere to support researchers who become victims of predatory publishers.

I also do not think I see any recognition of their plight, or details of what is being planned to help them, in your document. Perhaps I missed it.

Anyway, I have blogged about the topic here:

https://poynder.blogspot.com/2018/07/falling-prey-to-predatory-oa-publisher.html

Richard Poynder

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, 13:51 Reckling, Falk, <Falk.Reckling at fwf.ac.at<mailto:Falk.Reckling at fwf.ac.at>> wrote:
The Austrian Science Board and the FWF Respond to the Recent Media Reports on the Questionable Practices of Several Scholarly Publishers
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news-and-media-relations/news/detail/nid/20180724-2314/

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