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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 14/08/2012 05:11, Stephen B. Alayon
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<div><span>Apologies for cross-posting. This might be of
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Predatory Publishing
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<div>Overzealous open-access advocates are creating an
exploitative environment, threatening the credibility of
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<div> <b>By Jeffrey Beall | August 1, 2012</b> </div>
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Predatory publishers use deception to appear legitimate,
entrapping researchers into submitting their work and then
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<div><span class="dropcap">A</span> great upheaval is
occurring in scholarly publishing. Over the past 10 years,
researchers, academics, and academic librarians have been
promoting open-access publishing, and we are just now
beginning to see the results of their advocacy, which
unfortunately are way below expectations.</div>
<div>One result is that the open-access movement is producing
an almost boomtown-like increase in the number of scholarly
open-access publishers, fostered by a very low barrier to
entrance into the learned publishing industry. To become a
scholarly publisher, all you need now is a computer, a
website, and the ability to create unique journal titles.</div>
<div>Bolstering this trend is the so-called “gold open-access”
model, in which publishing is supported not by subscription
fees but by author fees. An example of a gold open-access
journal is <i>The Scientific World Journal</i>,<i> </i>currently
published by Cairo-based Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
This megajournal covers virtually all scientific fields and
imposes an article processing charge of $1,000 for each
accepted article. Similarly, the better-known <i>Public
Library of Science </i>(<i>PLoS</i>)<i> </i>journals
charge authors anywhere from $1,350 to $2,900 to publish,
with a discount if the researcher is affiliated with a
university that is an institutional member.</div>
<div>This increase in the number of open-access journals has
major implications for scholarly publishing. Authors become
the publishers’ customers, an arrangement that creates a
conflict of interest: the more papers a publisher accepts,
the more revenue it earns.</div>
<div>Not surprisingly, acceptance rates at gold open-access
journals are skyrocketing, and article peer review is
decreasing. Scholarly communication is now flooded with
hundreds of thousands of new, second-rate articles each
year, burdening conscientious researchers who have to sort
through them all, filtering out the unworthy ones.</div>
<div>Exploiting the trend is an increasing number of what I
define as “predatory” publishers—those that unprofessionally
exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit.
These publishers use deception to appear legitimate,
entrapping researchers into submitting their work and then
charging them to publish it. Some prey especially on junior
faculty and graduate students, bombarding them with spam
e-mail solicitations. Harvesting data from legitimate
publishers’ websites, they send personalized spam, enticing
researchers by praising their earlier works and inviting
them to submit a new manuscript. Many of these bogus
publishers falsely claim to enforce stringent peer review,
but it appears they routinely publish article manuscripts
upon receipt of the author fee. Some have added names to
their editorial boards without first getting permission from
the scientists they list, among other unethical practices.</div>
<div>These publishers’ websites look legitimate, making it
difficult to separate the professional from the unethical.
Unfortunately, many scientists have been fooled. Dozens have
asked me for a measure for determining legitimacy, but there
is very little that can be measured directly. The only real
measure is the publisher’s intent, which is hard or
impossible to discern.</div>
<div>The implications for tenure and promotion are
significant. Previously, traditional publishers played a
validation role: if an article appeared in a journal of a
respected publisher, generally everyone accepted it as
quality work worthy of publication. Now, predatory
publishers assign lofty titles to their journals, making the
task of judging a tenure candidate’s list of publications
much more complicated. Sadly, a few academics are gaming the
new system, exploiting the scholarly vanity press to buy
prestige.</div>
<div>Predatory open-access publishers threaten to erase the
line that divides science from nonscience. By accepting
pseudoscientific articles that outwardly appear legitimate
but whose methodologies are unsound, bogus publishers
gratuitously confer the imprimatur of science. As this trend
continues, we may lose the ability to easily separate the
real science from the fake.</div>
<div>The problems these predatory publishers cause have been
worsened by several of the players in the open-access
movement. Many academic librarians and other open-access
advocates have promoted open-access scholarly publishing
across the board, without limiting their promotion to the
few worthy open-access publishers, thus creating a more
fertile ground for predatory publishers. Librarians and
open-access advocates have also spent much time and effort
denouncing—and even cyberbullying—traditional scholarly
publishers, a practice that regrettably has further enabled
the growth of illegitimate open-access publishers. Some even
insist on open-access mandates, rules that would require
researchers to publish all their work in open-access venues,
thereby depriving them of the freedom to publish in the
venue of their choosing and serving to further energize the
exploitative open-access publishers.</div>
<div>Open-access enthusiasts are too quick to dismiss
traditional scholarly publishers. They have overly
politicized scholarly communication, applying their
anticorporate beliefs and tactics to learned publishing.
Many have abandoned objectivity; instead of seeking the best
model for scholarly communication, they seek only the <i>au
courant</i> one that fits their narrow beliefs.</div>
<div>Many open-access advocates fail to understand or
recognize the value that high-quality publishing adds to
scholarly content. One of these values is digital
preservation, or the long-term maintenance of journal
articles and other research output. Most of the new
open-access publishers have no long-term preservation
strategies, instead choosing to operate in the moment.
Furthermore, some open-access publishers now bypass the
copyediting process. In addition to deteriorating article
quality, these practices perpetuate the problem of
increasing plagiarism, as these journals rarely use the
available tools that can detect overlap between submitted
and published works.</div>
<div>Thus, while open-access publishing has some obvious
advantages—namely making scientific research freely
available to all that seek it—there are many other factors
to be considered. (For a more complete discussion of these
considerations, see “Whither Science Publishing” on page
32.) A publication model that has authors rather than
readers as its customers is still unproven and risky in the
long term. Scholarly communication needs more unbiased
analysis and less ideology. The publishing model that we
bequeath to the next generation of researchers needs to be
the best one, and not necessarily the ideologically correct
one.</div>
<div><b><i>Jeffrey Beall is a metadata librarian at the
University of Colorado Denver’s Auraria Library. Read
more about scholarly open-access publishing on his blog,
</i><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://scholarlyoa.com/">Scholarly Open Access</a><i>.</i></b></div>
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<h3>Beall’s List of Predatory Open-Access Publishers</h3>
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<div>This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access
publishers. I recommend that scholars not do any business
with these publishers, including submitting articles,
serving as editors or on editorial boards, or advertising
with them. Also, articles published in these publishers’
journals should be given extra scrutiny in the process of
evaluation for tenure and promotion.</div>
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