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"Academic publishing, mainstream journals, predatory journals, publishing ethics, early-career researchers, how to get published"

Updated list of "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers"

An updated list of "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals"

"This is an archive copy of the latest edition of Beall's list before it went dark. As scholarly publishing moves quickly, this static list will lose relevancy over time" (retrieved 2017.11.09).

"Recently, academics are receiving an increasing number of email invitations to submit papers. While some are legitimate announcements from reputable organizations, many are a new kind of spam from what Beall (2012) calls "predatory publishers" (p. 179). Basically, they track you down through the titles of your work and invite you to submit manuscripts. They promise quick turnaround and imply guaranteed acceptance. If you are a novice researcher, you might be flattered into submitting. However, you may find later that there is a hefty fee. We wrote this paper to help you identify suspicious solicitations so that you can avoid being duped" (¶1).

This post recommended checking the DOAJ directly to determine whether particular journals actually are in its index, and announced migration of the list early in 2018.