Neuer Selbstlernkurs für Forschende und Bibliotheksmitarbeitende: #PredatoryJournals erkennen und vermeiden

Der Online-Kurs von @tibhannover zeigt,
🔎 wie sich unseriöse Journals erkennen lassen
🧰 welche Prüftools & Checklisten helfen
⚠️ welche Risiken Predatory Publishing birgt – und was man tun kann, wenn man dort publiziert hat.

Zum Kurs: https://service.tib.eu/toern/course/view.php?id=64

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📅 Offene Online-Sprechstunde: 4. Mai, 14–15 Uhr

#OpenAccess #PredatoryPublishing #WissKomm #OpenScience #Bibliothek

"Predatory Journals erkennen und vermeiden. Sicher publizieren in der Wissenschaft":
Es gibt einen neuen Selbstlernkurs von @openaccessnetwork & @tibhannover zu diesem wichtigen Thema!
» https://service.tib.eu/toern/course/view.php?id=64
#PredatoryPublishing #ThinkCheckSubmit

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Predatory Publishing, Paper Mills & andere unseriöse Praktiken beeinflussen zunehmend das Publikations- und Zitierverhalten von Forschenden.

Am 29. April 2026 um 12:30 Uhr spricht Jasmin Schmitz im Rahmen des BW-CAR LunchLabs über das Thema „Unseriöse Praktiken im wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesen und wie Forschende darauf reagieren können“.

📎 Mehr Infos & Anmeldung:
https://eveeno.com/149045218

#Wissenschaft #Publizieren #PredatoryPublishing #PaperMills #LunchLab

Not even bothering to write full sentences is a new level of laziness, even for a predatory journal. I'm wondering if anyone actually falls for this?

#Academia #PredatoryPublishing

"Die größte wissenschaftliche Krise aller Zeiten"
Internationale Forscher warnen in der #StockholmDeclaration vor dem Zusammenbruch des Wissenfundaments moderner Gesellschaften – und fordern Reform des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens. Interview im Wiarda-Blog: https://www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/11/05/die-groesste-wissenschaftliche-krise-aller-zeiten
#Wissenschaft #wissenschaftlichespublizieren #diamondopenaccess #papermills #predatorypublishing

Bonjour, je prépare une formation pour les doctorant.e.s sur les éditeurs prédateurs, intitulée "the grey zone" pour penser un peu plus loin que le binaire predatory/legitimate ; est-ce que quelqu'un pourrait me donner accès à cet article de Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02360-2 (nous ne sommes pas abonnés dans mon université)
me contacter en privé

Merci par avance!

#predatoryConference #predatoryPublishing

Saisir l’objet mouvant de la prédation dans la communication scientifique

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/11/10/saisir-lobjet-mouvant-de-la-predation-dans-la-communication-scientifique/

#InnocentAzilan #OpenAccessPublishing #PredatoryPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication

A new preprint on Ukrainian publications in Gold Open Access has a very telling Figure 12. And you know what? It’s a total disaster.

👉 https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08850

It turns out that the largest shares of our APC spending go to MDPI and the Polish Aluna Publishing House. Even worse — the top list also includes “famous” players like WSEAS, Sciedu Press, and the Georgian Association of Business Press = dubious publishers.

#OpenAccess #PredatoryPublishing #Ukraine #Science #APC #GoldOA

Evaluation of Faculty Knowledge of Predatory Journals in the United States: A Cross-Institutional Survey

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/09/09/evaluation-of-faculty-knowledge-of-predatory-journals-in-the-united-states-a-cross-institutional-survey/

#ArleneVSalazar #JasonACohen #JohnMReynolds #LisaAncelet #NicoleRWebber #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing #ScientificCommunication #ScientificPractices #StephanieWiegand #UnitedStates

eine einschätzung von "#Cabell’s Journalytics and Predatory Reports" im Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2025/cabells-journalytics-and-predatory-reports-review
#publishing #misconduct #predatorypublishing

"on predatory academic journals and conferences" https://patthomson.net/2025/07/16/on-predatory-academic-journals-and-conferences/
#predatorypublishing #academicpublishing #researchassessment

Just turned down a review request from Frontiers Physiology

Manuscript was far from my area of expertize and the reputation of the publisher is not good

#AcademicChatter #science #PredatoryPublishing
#scholarlykitchen #predatoryjournals
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/03/30/guest-post-of-special-issues-and-journal-purges/

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist @creativecommons @dingemansemark

This is getting worse by the minute. I followed @christof|s hint concerning the reproduction of articles from #DHQ / @DHQuarterly looking for one of my own papers (https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000593/000593.html).

In this case #ProQuest blatantly violates the CC BY-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/) by

- not mentioning the license
- producing a derivative
- not linking to the original

I am very much in favour of @adho.org, as the publisher of @DHQuarterly, following the path outlined by @dingemansemark. I will also log a complaint with #ProQuest through my employer.

#AcademicPublishing #Licensing #Piracy #PlatformCapitalism #PredatoryPublishing

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist @creativecommons

After reading through the CC BY license I am none the wiser whether one has to clearly indicate that the material in question had been originally published somewhere else. The DOI as provided by #ProQuest reveals this fact but only after manually parsing the string with a resolver. Readers unfamiliar with the Programming Historian are made to believe that ProQuest is the original publisher or the platform officially hosting the original content.

However, ProQuest clearly violates the attribution requirements by modifying the layout and removing images. The CC BY license explicitly states that “You must […] indicate if You modified the Licensed Material”.

#AcademicPublishing #PredatoryPublishing #OpenLicenses #CreativeCommons #DigitalHumanities

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist in my view this clearly violates the license of CC BY as it does not respect the attribution bit. Probably @creativecommons could chime in?

#predatoryPublishing #CreativeCommons #AcademicPublishing #licensing

"Predatory Publishing: Unseriöse und fragwürdige Verlage erkennen und bewerten": Folien zu einem Vortrag von Tobias Pohlmann: https://doi.org/10.17170/kobra-2025043011087
#PredatoryPublishing #WissenschaftlichesPublizieren #OpenAccess #Verlagswesen

Si vous l’avez manqué, nous vous conseillons de suivre en replay le webinaire sur les éditeurs prédateurs donné par Laurence He et Mélanie Karli de l’université de Montpellier 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhwVQdvXFLM

🕵️‍♂️ Apprenez à mieux détecter les #EditeursPredateurs dans les trois grands domaines dans lesquels ils sévissent : revues, conférences et livres

🍒 En bonus : un focus sur le phénomène des #PaperMills

#PredatoryOpenAcess #PredatoryPublishing #PublicationsScientifiques

Shaharima Parvin of East West University in Bangladesh presents her experience as a librarian.

"Information wants to be free. It also wants to be expensive" - Stewart Brand, 1984

Trust is at risk, but open access helps promote scholarly communication - however, many senior researchers believe all OA is predatory. Many academics want to publish asap, don't know about indexing, and lack funds.

#EASEevents #EASEoslo #Librarians #ScholComm #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing #Bangladesh

Think. Check. Submit. helps teach researchers and others to identify predatory and questionable journals. Sofie Wennström presents at our conference in Oslo on how the tips guide authors as an alternative to block lists, allow lists, and the uncritical use of journal metrics. They also help journals ensure they are being and presenting as trustworthy.

#PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryJournals #ThinkCheckSubmit #JournalPublishing #CriticalAppraisal #PublicationEthics #EASEevents #EASEoslo

El próximo 21 de mayo se va a realizar este evento (en inglés) sobre el actual fraude en ciencia, revistas predadoras, y estrategias de control. Lo que me llama la atención es el pararelismo que se plantea con la biología y cómo se pueden percibir estas publicaciones como si fuesen virus, abriendo la opción de nuevas formas de control.

Vale la pena asistir para conocer otras perspecctivas

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_WnDWmePSkujAYHsdz-dhQ#/registration

#PredatoryPublishing