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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Predatory Journals

A listserve I subscribe to featured some discussion of "predatory journals."  If you are like me, you get mass emailings inviting you to contribute to journals you never heard of, especially online journals.

Some of these journals are shams that live off submission fees and/or advertising.  You can find some discussion of this web phenomenon at:

http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/30/criteria-for-determining-predatory-open-access-publishers-2nd-edition/

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