What is it about?
This article provides an update to what was then an ongoing legal case between the Federal Trade Commission and OMICS, an alleged predatory publisher. The article also provides some lessons from the case for the scholarly publishing community.
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Why is it important?
The work is timely because the case was ongoing and recently concluded with a verdict against OMICS, holding it liable for $50.1 million.
Perspectives
I plan on writing a short blogpost for the University of Toronto Press about my experience of writing about a legal case that could develop at any moment for a quarterly publication that needed time to prepare the manuscript.
Stewart Manley
University of Malaya
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Predatory Journals on Trial: Allegations, Responses, and Lessons for Scholarly Publishing from FTC v. OMICS, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, April 2019, University of Toronto Press (UTPress),
DOI: 10.3138/jsp.50.3.02.
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