Open Access Week and Predatory Publishers | Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library

"October 20-26, 2014 was Open Access Week, a global effort, now in its eighth year, to promote the free, immediate, online access to scholarly knowledge. Open Access is the practice of making published scholarly research available online for free. To further this end, there are many open access journals in existence to which authors could consider submitting their work ... Authors should be wary when submitting their work of publishers who, among other things: depend on author fees as their own means of operating and sustaining their journal; do not identify a formal editorial or review board; provide no academic information regarding the editor, editorial staff, and/or review board; are not listed in standard periodical directories or library databases; publish journals that are too broad – often done to attract a greater number of articles and thus bring in more revenue through author fees; do minimal or no copyediting ..."