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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Richard,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">2) There is no reliable empirical evidence that the phenomenon of predatory publishing has increased massively over time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In short, we should observe and scientifically analyse the phenomenon, but also not overestimate and panic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best
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Falk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE"> goal-bounces@eprints.org <goal-bounces@eprints.org>
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Richard Poynder<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2018 15:22<br>
<b>An:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal@eprints.org><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [GOAL] Predatory Publishing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for posting this Falk. I have yet to see concerted action taken anywhere to support researchers who become victims of predatory publishers. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyway, I have blogged about the topic here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://poynder.blogspot.com/2018/07/falling-prey-to-predatory-oa-publisher.html">https://poynder.blogspot.com/2018/07/falling-prey-to-predatory-oa-publisher.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Richard Poynder <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, 13:51 Reckling, Falk, <<a href="mailto:Falk.Reckling@fwf.ac.at" target="_blank">Falk.Reckling@fwf.ac.at</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">The Austrian Science Board and the FWF Respond to the Recent Media Reports on the Questionable Practices of Several Scholarly Publishers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news-and-media-relations/news/detail/nid/20180724-2314/" target="_blank">https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news-and-media-relations/news/detail/nid/20180724-2314/</a>
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Falk Reckling, PhD<br>
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CV via ORCID </span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1326-1766" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1326-1766</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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