I would second the recommendation to look at Jeffrey Beall's list (he is an academic librarian and was threatened with a law suit in 2013 to the tune of 1 billion US dollars by OMICS, one of the firms he targeted which is predatory publishing outfit in India; the relevant legal statute in India was struck down in 2015): List of predatory publishers: https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Best. Kalpana On 29 December 2016 at 14:03, José María Mateos <chema@rinzewind.org> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 08:50:56AM -0500, Zach McDowell wrote:
a great place to start, but it might be interesting if there was a repository of OA shaming somewhere (although something tells me someone has this already) to help align our goals. Its unfortunate about Andrew's
Jeffrey Beall [1] has been doing this for some time. Incidentally, he is quoted in a New York Times article today about "fake academia" (everything seems to be fake these days) [2].
Cheers,
Chema.
[1] <https://scholarlyoa.com> [2] <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looki ng-much-like-the-real-thing.html>
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