Who are the Predators? | Frantsvåg | ScieCom Info

Use the link to access the full text article from Sciecominfo opening as follows: "I assume most of you are familiar with Beall’s list of predatory publishers. This list contains information on (currently) 195 publishers that, according to Jeffrey Beall, are publishers more interested in getting an income than in publishing quality-assured science.Now, Beall is undoubtedly pointing at a serious problem. Establishing more or less 'fake' publishing ventures is very easy in an Open Access (OA) world, using the ubiquitous OJS software. Something resembling an honest publisher may be set up with only a few hours of work. Such publishers are a problem for the reputation of OA, because their lack of quality will taint the concept of OA. We should all get together and try to rid the world of these publishers. A major step forward will be to demand authors actually try to check the quality of journals they want to publish in, e.g. by reading some recent articles or looking at the editorial board. In Norway, the body accrediting journals for the Norwegian financing system for the research and higher education sector, this spring withdrew accreditation for nearly 200 journals due to questions about their peer review systems and quality. And we know they actively try to avoid getting more dubious journals into the system. Beall’s list has been one of the