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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; "><i>Inside Public Access</i> is proud to announce our new project -- Assessment of Predatory Publishing (APP). This crowdsourced effort aims to explore the nature and scope of predatory publishing. We will also track and report on the emerging Crusade to curb the practice and use of predatory journals.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">For more information, see <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/assessment-of-predatory-publishing">https://www.gofundme.com/assessment-of-predatory-publishing</a>.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Questions, suggestions and leads to new or ongoing efforts to curb predatory publishing are always welcome. OSI is certainly high on the list of efforts. We have been covering the growing issue of predatory publishing for several years now and finally decided it was worthy of its own assessment project.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">David Wojick, Ph.D.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">davidwojick@insidepublicaccess.com<br>
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