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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Philip Machanick

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The flipside of this is that there are some quite respectable journals published with predatory charges for access that put them out of reach of the less well funded researcher or library. Publishing in that kind of journal limits your ability to be seen, read and cited.

In my view all research should be free to read. If a journal needs to charge authors to cover costs, that is acceptable as long as there is an option for authors without funding to cover publication charges not to pay, and the decision to accept a paper is independent of ability to pay.

In some cases, the dividing line between scam and acceptable is not so clear. I’ve seen giant multi-conferences that look like scams including the sort of conference that would accept any random (literally) paper, but if you check all the individual conferences, you may find others are respectable, with real academics doing the review and programme chair. I haven’t yet seen this with one of these dubious journal publishers but it is plausible that they could have made the con real by picking up a decent editorial board in an obscure area that is short of journals. Not so likely in an area already well covered.

In either case the key thing before participating in any way is do your due diligence on credibility (editors, previous issues, citations).


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