What is it about?
Since the new millennium we have seen a growth in Open Access publishing, meaning that papers are freely available online to readers. However, journals offering Open Access publishing often require a submission fee. A huge numbers of scientific journals exist globally as academic publishing is big business. This in turn has given rise to unscrupulous predatory publishers. Broadly speaking, predatory publishing describes a variety of exploitive practices which includes charging fees for publication/submission/processing, without editorial support or peer review, the most importance part of academic publishing. The misuse of Open Access publishing is largely a ploy to make money and unethical.
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Why is it important?
The importance is to raise awareness in budding academic authors about the pitfalls of commercial publishing, the existence of predatory publishers.
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There is a growing pressure on academics to publish in commercial for-profit journals. It can be hard for academics to sort the wheat from the chaff in terms of quality of academic journals.
Professor Edwin R van Teijlingen
Bournemouth University
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This page is a summary of: Predatory Publishing:A Great Concern for Authors, Medical Science, December 2017, Chandannagar Medical Research Association (CMRA),
DOI: 10.29387/ms.2017.5.4.43.
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