Trends in Questionable Journal Publishing: A Year in Review Lise Brin & Lisa Goddard Atlantic Provinces Library Association June 5, Moncton, NB

March 2013

April 2013

October 2013

November 2013

March 2014

May 2014

Predatory publisher numbers according to Beall’s List

What can we learn from looking at the past year from the point of view of a researcher?

How concerned should we be about the emergence of these questionable publishers?

Talking to faculty about Gold OA.

Faculty Motivators Tenure Prestige Funding Control over work Accessibility of scholarly literature Benefit to community Global innovation Library budgets

P&T Fears Will my committee consider OA journals to be of low quality?

Open Access is now a mainstream publishing model. Approximately % of academic journals are Open Access.

Open Access Journals - Wiley

Open Access Journals - Springer

Open Access Journals – T&F

Open Access Journals - Elsevier

Funder Support for OA

SSHRC/NSERC OA Mandate

Government Policy - US

Government Policy - UK

Assessing Journal Quality

Journal Quality Indicators peer-review quality editorial board acceptance rates readership citation rate years of publication indexing Impact Factor* *Reliance on journal metrics may vary according to discipline. business model

OA Journal Quality ISI Journal Citation Reports

Journal Metrics

Journal Quality Standards

SPARC Europe Seal of Approval

Registered with SHERPA/RoMEO Editorial board with clearly identifiable members Clear review process Allows use and reuse at least at the levels specified in the Open Access Spectrum. (e.g. HTML vs. PDF) DOAJ Listing Criteria

Open Access Spectrum

DOAJ Seal of Approval Use DOIs (digital object identifiers) as permanent article-level identifiers Provide article-level metadata to DOAJ Have a long-term digital preservation arrangement in place with an external party Embed machine-readable CC copyright information in its articles’ metadata

OASPA Membership

OASPA Censure

Institutional Reassurance

Statement of Support for OA

Collective Agreement “ We will regard a record of open access publication as evidence of service to the community in evaluation of applications for faculty appointments, promotions and grants.”

Visibility

Social Media Sharing

RR Download Stats

Teaching & MOOCs

Altmetrics Sharing in social media. Reporting in news outlets. Prevalence in citation managers.

More Citations

Control over your work.

Reuse Your Work

Professional Websites

Scholarly Networking

I can’t afford to pay to write.

Open Access Author’s Fund Library pays author’s fee for publication in OA journals. Faculty & grad students $3000/year

Tri-Agency Support

No Fee OA Journals - Laakso and Björk (2012) No feesFees

No Fee OA Journals

Discipline Matters

Thank you!