Un-publication: Fake journals and the dark side of open-access publication (for the desperate, for crackpots and for the naïve)Colin Harrison, School of Education / Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham

Good news!

Good news!

Good news!

Good news!

Good news!

Good news!

Good news!

Good news!DEStech publishes

23 journals, so one is

bound to be in

education!

Good news!DEStech publishes

23 journals, so one is

bound to be in

education!

Good news!DEStech publishes

23 journals, so one is

bound to be in

education!

Are our students now finding (and citing as authoritative) otherwise unpublishable research from rogue ‘peer-reviewed’ journals?

Are our students now finding (and citing as authoritative) otherwise unpublishable research from rogue ‘peer-reviewed’ journals?

Are our students now finding (and citing as authoritative) otherwise unpublishable research from rogue ‘peer-reviewed’ journals?

Are our students now finding (and citing as authoritative) otherwise unpublishable research from rogue ‘peer-reviewed’ journals?

Good news!

N=790 publishers

N=658 other stand-alone journals

Another opportunity!

scrip.org

Another opportunity!- especially for

Chinese authors….

STOP PRESS!!

MORE good news!

(plus another 17….)

Un-publication: the dark side of open-access publication (for the desperate, for crackpots and for the naïve)Colin Harrison, University of Nottingham/LSRI

Points to consider: -Are online ‘predatory publishers’ any more predatory than regular publishers?-Are ‘Scholarly’ Open-Access Publications (SOAPs) valuable?

- For the desperate- yes- And for crackpots- yes- For the naïve – potentially less reliable than Wikipedia- SOAPs do greatly extend the possibilities for publishing

online for academics in non-OECD nations-Take-home message: CAVEAT LECTOR

Un-publication: the dark side of open-access publication (for the desperate, for crackpots and for the naïve)Colin Harrison, University of Nottingham/LSRI