Identifying legitimate open access journals: some suggestions from a publisher

Identifying legitimate open access journals: some suggestions from a publisher

Key points • New publishing models lead to new players – not all of them good. • No commonly accepted criteria aid scholars to select 'good' journals. • Journals (and publishers) need to assert their good practice. • How do publishers serve their different customers – readers, authors, reviewers, and the public? The scholarly publishing market has been disrupted by several recent innovations, a...

predatory open access journals

سخن سردبیر editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره پانزدهم، آبان 1395، 808-807 مجلات یغماگر با دسترسی آزاد predatory open access journals محسن رضائیان[1]،[2] m. rezaeian پیدایش و رشد «مجلات با دسترسی آزاد» (open access journals) در سالیان اخیر، نویدبخش دوره جدیدی از چاپ و انتشار یافته های نوین علمی بود. قرار بود که در این دوره جدید، نویسندگان یک مقاله علمی با پرداخت هزینه های چاپ، نتیجه ...

Open-access mega-journals

Purpose – Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE, are large scale, broad scope journals that operate an open access business model (normally based on article-processing charges), and which employ a novel form of peer review, focussing on scientific “soundness” and eschewing judgement of novelty...

Open-Access Journals

Discriminating Between Legitimate and Predatory Open Access Journals: Report from the International Federation for Emergency Medicine Research Committee

INTRODUCTION Open access (OA) medical publishing is growing rapidly. While subscription-based publishing does not charge the author, OA does. This opens the door for "predatory" publishers who take authors' money but provide no substantial peer review or indexing to truly disseminate research findings. Discriminating between predatory and legitimate OA publishers is difficult. METHODS We sear...