Wednesday, March 15, 2017
"How Do You Know A Journal or Publisher Is Legitimate?" by Dana Haugh, Stony Hook University LIbraries
Open access journals and institutional repositories benefit the scholarly community, but open access has also opened the door to predatory publishing. Often, predatory journals use convincing titles and list prominent academics on their editorial boards without permission, making it difficult to distinguish them from legitimate journals.
Among the questions addressed by our archivist Katy Scullin and emerging technologies librarian Sarah Kurpiel were:
