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The FTC is suing scientific publisher OMICS Group for deceptive practices. But what about the hundreds of other predatory publishers?
The Federal Trade Commission has charged the publisher of hundreds of purported online academic journals with deceiving academics and researchers about the nature of its publications and hiding
Dr Augustine Fou explains how publishers are affected by ad fraud and how bots can and will continue to flout the code of advertising.
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Many scientists have been receiving unsolicited emails from the Swiss publisher Frontiers, with invitations to submit papers or become peer review “editor” with this Open Access (OA) publisher. In …
In this article, I will compare editorial policies of two for-profit open access (OA) publishers, Frontiers and Hindawi. Though both are members of OASPA and COPE as well as sponsors of DOAJ, respe…
The entire article is just those seven words over and over again. Reviewer says it's "excellent" science.
Australian Nobel laureate Professor Peter Doherty, who was to be guest speaker at an international medical conference in Melbourne, has pulled out over concerns about the organising company.
Predatory Open Access Journals: Myths and Realities John Dupuis, York University Libraries Open Access Week, OCADU, October 22, 2015 @dupuisj / http://bit.ly/dupuisOCADU
The Lausanne-based publishing house Frontiers, founded by the neuroscientists Henry and Kamila Markram, has been added to the Beall’s List of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly op…
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Almost a year ago, I wrote about a terrible article that was published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health.
One major topic of conversation among publishers and librarians these days is the rise of predatory publishers. In the past, I’ve been concerned that the discussion has been divisive and used as somewhat of a political football between the Open Access (OA) and traditional publishing communities. Just lately though, I’ve been relieved to see the […]
Dalmeet Singh Chawla considers whether unsuspecting academics should be helped by having legitimate papers republished elsewhere