It is important to remember that technically most predatory journals are open access. DOAJ is a good resource but not fool proof. You need to judge each journal on a number of factors such as: is it known in your academic field, does it have any time of rating from the various citation ranking systems (impact factor, H index etc.), do any of the major indexing and abstracting services cover the journal, what is the rejection rate for article submissions, does the journal have an advisory board, if so, who is on the advisory board, does it have a peer-reviewed process, and if so, what is it?
The editors for the journal should be able to answer these question(s).
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Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals
From: Bob OHara <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, September 07, 2017 9:47 am
To: [email protected]
Hopefully the Directory of Open Access Journals is what you need: https://doaj.org/.Bob
On 09/07/2017 11:10 AM, Neahga Leonard wrote:
If anyone has a list of respectable, legitimate, good quality Open Access Journals that would probably be of great benefit to many in this listserv.
Many of us are not in the academic world, and our organizations cannot afford to criminally high cost of access to many journals, yet still need timely access to high quality publications, both for our own research and for publication of our findings.
This is especially true in the conservation world, where more and more organizations have a policy of using only Open Access Journals in order to ensure that our information is accessible to others who need it or are merely interested in it.
Those of you who use (publish in or read) legitimate Open Access Journals, please share your favorites with us.
Neahga Leonard
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On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:57 AM, David Duffy <[email protected]> wrote:
"To reduce the supply of papers flowing to predatory journals, we need to do a better job of educating trainees and faculty members about how to assess a journal's integrity. We need incentives and resources that will prevent scientists from sending real work to places that will not identify flaws or truly contribute to the scholarly literature. Several global funders have mandated open-access publishing. However, without guidance in selecting journals responsibly, this problem of irresponsible publishing is likely to increase. Science and society would be better off if we stopped the waste by cutting off the supply."
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