Have you received invitations to submit your work to “open access journals” that just don’t seem legitimate? There are, in fact, predatory journals trying to exploit the idea of open access and the naïveté of scholars unfamiliar with the nuances of open access publishing just to make a quick buck. You may have run across lists of predatory journals, but how do you tell? And, how do you tell if a conference is predatory?
You don’t need to be frightened by predatory journals and conferences anymore. There are CUNY librarians to help navigate these scary hazards of scholarly communication.
To Catch a Predator: How to Recognize Predatory Journals and Conferences
- Friday, November 15, 2013, 10am – 12pm
- The Graduate Center, Rooms C203/C204 (Concourse Level)
- Refreshments will be served
Predatory publishers have always existed but, due in part to the growth of online publishing, they are becoming more visible, more aggressive, and more important to understand. Evaluating journal quality is increasingly difficult with many new journals and publishers. Some are predatory, claiming peer review where there is none and being far more interested in profit than the dissemination of high-quality scholarly information. Many others are simply low quality — not predatory but not a desirable publishing venue for most scholars.
Come learn about their spammy, scammy practices, as well as how to distinguish simply less-good publishers from truly predatory ones, why the existence of predatory publishers should not scare us away from open access publishing more generally, and how to respond when others conflate predatory and open access publishing.
Please RSVP by Thursday, November 7 to Jill Cirasella or Maura Smale.
This event is sponsored by the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable, the CUNY Office of Library Services, and Just Publics @ 365.
