LibGuides: Scholarly Communication/Publication: Predatory Publishers

Beall's List of Predatory Publishers (Archived on Internet Archive as at 31.12.2016)

Additions to Beall's List

Criteria used for items to be on Beall's List Weebly

Predatory and Vanity Book Publishers

IGI Global
inTechOpen This is listed on Beall's archived list of predatory publishers Dec 2016. It is not listed on Directory of Open Access Books, nor is it a member of Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), although I have been informed by Knowledge Unlatched, which has a partnership with inTechOpen on a project, that inTech will be registering formally with OASPA in due course (5.10.2018). Academy of Science of SA suggest one only publishes with inTechOpen once they are formally registered as members of OASPA.
Lambert Academic Publishers (LAP) is "an imprint of OmniScriptum." A Must to Avoid
List of vanity presses
Omniscriptum (formerly VDM Verlag) Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP) is an imprint of Omniscriptum
Predatory/Vanity Book Publishers
Predatory open access publishing (Wikipedia)
Scholar's Press (part of Omniscriptum Group)
VDM Publishing now called Omniscriptum
Your Thesis and the Predatory Publisher

Misleading Metrics

What is Predatory Publishing?

Comments/Experiences with Predatory Publishing Practices

Questionable Transcription Services

Aproskie Transcription Services From a concerned academic in 2015: I recently sent some transcripts out to a transcription firm called Aproskie Transcription Services. When I contacted them they said they had previously had dealings with WITS academics etc and appeared to be reputable. They requested payment before releasing the transcripts, however when I received the transcripts I saw that they were not only laughably inaccurate, but also very poorly transcribed linguistically and grammatically. They are wholly unusable for any sort of qualitative analysis and thus useless to my research. I have subsequently tried to contact them several times, but have received no reply. I was wondering if there was some way that this might be flagged up to staff thinking of using this service, so that other academics and postgraduate students do not sit with the same problem as me - having paid lots of money for transcription I still have to re-transcribe all the interviews myself
Predatory Publishing Is No Joke

Withdrawing a manuscript from a predatory journal

Action against predatory publishers

How to Avoid Predatory Publishing or Conferences

Fake Editors

Self-Publishers trading on names of good publishers

Predatory Publishers (Fake Science) Sucks!

Predatory Publishing Bibliography

Predatory Publishing Bibliography (Unisa)

Reports/Studies on Predatory Publishing Practices

Predatory Journals that have been removed from the DHET accredited list

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences

National Research Foundation (South Africa) - Statement on Predatory Publishers

NRF Statement on Predatory Publishers and Deceptive Publishers

Research regarding predatory publishing practices

Check List and Guidelines for Publishing

Principles of Transparency & Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

Avoiding Predatory Publishing

Ensure you select a reputable, accredited OA journal before publishing via the OA Gold Route. See OA accredited journals. Rather adopt the OA Green Route (i.e. publishing in an accredited subscription based journal and placing a copy of your publication in Wits Institutional Repository (WIREDSPACE). To check what version your publishers allow for deposit in WIREDSPACE, see: Copyright Policies.

Scholarly Communication/Publication: Predatory Publishers