[VPAAEtal] Please Note: Information on Predatory Publishers by Jeffrey Beall

[Academic Affairs]

Dear Faculty,

Thank you to all who attended Jeffrey Beall's session, Don't Be Fooled: Recognizing & Avoiding Predatory Publishers! Yesterday, 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.

On his website, you will find his criteria for evaluating scholarly open-access publishers and journals, https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/criteria-2015.pdf. This 6-page report should give you an idea of what factors to consider when selecting a journal to publish your scholarly work. You will also find his list of 742 questionable scholarly open-access publishers and 585 questionable stand-alone journals, at last count. Additionally, a list of 34 hijacked or counterfeit journals and 27 misleading metrics are included.

Mr. Beall shared several tools to help you determine the credibility and quality of scholarly publishers: 1) his black lists; 2) white lists developed by your discipline's professional organizations, institution, college, and/or department; 3) the journal's impact factor from a credible metrics service; and 4) 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. This information is available on the CFEI website at http://www.tamuc.edu/facultyStaffServices/centerForFacultyExcellenceAndInnovation/rsca/scholarship.aspx for your reference.


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