#predatorypublishing — Public Fediverse posts

A new preprint on Ukrainian publications in Gold Open Access has a very telling Figure 12. And you know what? It’s a total disaster.

👉 https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08850

It turns out that the largest shares of our APC spending go to MDPI and the Polish Aluna Publishing House. Even worse — the top list also includes “famous” players like WSEAS, Sciedu Press, and the Georgian Association of Business Press = dubious publishers.

#OpenAccess #PredatoryPublishing #Ukraine #Science #APC #GoldOA

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist @creativecommons @dingemansemark

This is getting worse by the minute. I followed @christof|s hint concerning the reproduction of articles from #DHQ / @DHQuarterly looking for one of my own papers (https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000593/000593.html).

In this case #ProQuest blatantly violates the CC BY-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/) by

- not mentioning the license
- producing a derivative
- not linking to the original

I am very much in favour of @adho.org, as the publisher of @DHQuarterly, following the path outlined by @dingemansemark. I will also log a complaint with #ProQuest through my employer.

#AcademicPublishing #Licensing #Piracy #PlatformCapitalism #PredatoryPublishing

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist @creativecommons

After reading through the CC BY license I am none the wiser whether one has to clearly indicate that the material in question had been originally published somewhere else. The DOI as provided by #ProQuest reveals this fact but only after manually parsing the string with a resolver. Readers unfamiliar with the Programming Historian are made to believe that ProQuest is the original publisher or the platform officially hosting the original content.

However, ProQuest clearly violates the attribution requirements by modifying the layout and removing images. The CC BY license explicitly states that “You must […] indicate if You modified the Licensed Material”.

#AcademicPublishing #PredatoryPublishing #OpenLicenses #CreativeCommons #DigitalHumanities

It sucks that posting a paper on #SSRN (or probably any widely used #preprint platform) results in semi-regular spam emails from predatory publishers offering to publish it in their (often thematically inappropriate) predatory journals.

Of course, most people probably send them to spam, but I imagine they're using the scattershot technique where they just need to catch a few people unaware of their practices who desperately need publications.

#AcademicPublishing #PredatoryPublishing

Heute startet das Seminar "Predatory Publishing, Paper Mills und Retractions - die Schattenseiten des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens". Dr. Jasmin Schmitz (ZB MED) und Ursula Ulrych (Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien) beleuchten unseriöse Publikationspraktiken, KI-Einsatz, „Journal Hijacking“, „Indexjacking“ und die Problematik von Paper Mills. Wir sind gespannt! #Bibliotheken #Library #LibraryTwitter #PredatoryPublishing #PaperMills

Last year, Scopus blitzed all links to journal websites from their profiles in a clumsy reaction to their data being infiltrated by journal hijackers, i.e., fraudsters who pose as a real journal.

Did it work? No. They're still indexing hijacked content, notes Anna Abalkina on Retraction Watch.

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/18/journal-hijackers-still-infiltrate-scopus-despite-its-efforts/

#Scopus #HijackedJournals #PublicationEthics #AnnaAbalkina #RetractionWatch #AbstractingAndIndexing #ScientificFraud #JournalPublication #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing

Beware of #predatory publishing – but also of low-quality #blacklists
By Jan Erik Frantsvåg

👉 "We should be wary of low-quality #journals and predatory #OA #publishing. But we should also know which sources’ judgement to trust. Is the new website Predatory Reports a trustworthy source of information?"

https://doi.org/10.7557/11.7010

#predatoryjournals #predatorypublishers #predatorypublishing #openscience

[Preprint] Are some academic #librarians providing misinformation about #predatory #publishing?

👉 In academic scholarly communication, the #predatorypublishing debate is hotly contested. Despite errors, weaknesses and flaws with Jeffrey #Beall’s #blacklists, it is not uncommon to observe academic papers and derivative websites citing, using and promoting those now-defunct blacklists.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/2xscw/

#OAPred #PredatoryJournals #universities #research

Our new #preprint: Are some academic #librarians providing #misinformation about #PredatoryPublishing?

:doi: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/2xscw

Despite errors n weaknesses with Jeffrey Beall’s blacklists, it's not uncommon to observe papers and derivative websites citing, using and promoting those now-defunct #blacklists.

We found that academic libraries globally are promoting Beall’s blacklists, or derivatives thereof, potentially offering erroneous advice to the public, institutes, and academics.