A panel of industry experts will provide tips and tools to enhance medical publication efforts and avoid so-called "predatory journals" in a webinar titled Optimise Your Medical Publications and Avoid "Predatory Journals", scheduled for May 9, 2017. Jeffrey Beall, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, and ICON's PubsHub team will discuss the growth of open access publishing and what precautions you can take to avoid falling into costly and career damaging traps.
Attendees can learn best practices and tools to understand key attributes of true publication models so that you can differentiate between sanctioned and possible predatory journals/publishers; identify credible publishers and understand how they operate; and create a personal list of possible predatory publishers to avoid future entrapments.
Open access (OA) journals are scholarly publications, available across the internet. They are freely accessible, with no subscription costs. OA journals are financed by author fees or by funding from an association, organisation, or a university. From 2012 to 2017, the number of open access journals increased from 4,034 to 9,405.
While open access journals bring clear cost and accessibility advantages, it is important for authors to be able to accurately assess the quality and reputation of any potential publisher.
The number of predatory journals appears to be growing with open access journals having cropped up across the Internet. They appear to be legitimate, with websites similar to those of any typical scholarly publisher: editorial boards supported by well-respected scientists, claims of rigorous peer review and indexing in the most prominent databases. However, many young and inexperienced researchers all over the world have been deceived, losing both money and reputation. This problem is also increasing to disproportionally affect researchers in developing countries, particularly for scientists in areas with relatively low levels of publication literacy, training, and support.
Interested parties may visit http://xtalks.com/Optimise-Your-Medical-Communications-Initiatives.html for more information or to register for this free webinar.
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