Comment on Sudanese Researcher Falls Victim to Questionable Publisher by LAOcampo

Here in the Philippines, our government shares a large portion of funding to libraries of top leading universities to have access of journal articles from toll-access publishers. Because research funding of universities is very limited, individual researchers or funding agencies don’t have what we call “dissemination grant” (or very limited grant) that could allow researchers to publish their work in OA publishers. Research dissemination is usually done through conferences or publication in toll-access journals. Although the issue of “predatory publishing” has been known by a handful of universities (maybe three to four universities) almost two years ago, this is still not in the limelight of Philippine universities at present.