Optimise Your Medical Publications and Avoid “Predatory Journals”
lterrat's bookmarks 2017-04-27
Summary:
"Join us to learn tips and tools to enhance your medical publication efforts and avoid so-called 'predatory journals'. Jeffrey Beall, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, and ICON’s PubsHub team will discuss the growth of open access publishing and what precautions you can take to avoid falling into costly and career damaging traps. Learn best practices and tools to:
- Understand key attributes of true publication models so that you can differentiate between sanctioned and possible predatory journals/publishers
- Identify credible publishers and understand how they operate
- Create a personal list of possible predatory publishers to avoid future entrapments"