#Predatory #publishing:

https://publicationethics.org/predatory-publishing-discussion-document

Not sure who is to be blamed here... Per article, the towing company in question " has been the target of much ire — from members of the public and public officials alike — over its prolific trespass towing, which many claim is done in a reckless or “predatory” manner." #predatory #towing

[Pre-print] #Predatory Journals on #Twitter: The Lack of Community Engagement

By Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher https://goo.gl/scholar/2c5mz7

#PredatoryJournals #OAPred #PredatoryPublishers #publishing #research #OMICS #scholComm

New study of authors who submit work to #predatory journals.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02553-1

Some are cynical (padding their resumes), some naïve, some a strange mix:

"I was shocked by how adrift many authors seemed when faced with the workings of scholarly publishing…Several researchers mistook me for a journal and replied to my #survey e-mail by attaching articles, with comments thanking me in advance for their 'next quick publication' or asking me 'how much it will cost them in dollars'."

as a former academic, i TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THIS! i was earning less money (by far) to teach than my students were earning

Since the 1970s, many #colleges & #universities have become #predatory financial giants, while mountains of student debt pile up & #academic work becomes ever more precarious. An ascendant academic #labor movement may be key to reversing these trends

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/us-university-neoliberalism-exploitation-financialization-debt-jobs/

I have developed a passionate hatred for #predatory journals and conferences. Name them and shame them!

If they would really care about knowledge dissemination, they don't need to start off with hundreds or thousands of dollars registration fee and a fancy hotel.

Funnily enough, some of the organizing companies provide their own list, which makes it easier to identify those off-the-shelf-scams...

*cough* uniteexplores(.)com/conferences.html
*cough*

Article suggestion: Beware of #scientific #scams! Hints to avoid #predatory #publishing in #biological #journals

https://neotropical.pensoft.net/article/108887/

"Open Access doesn't have the same quality as publishing with a traditional publisher!" That's one of four preconceptions we take a closer look at - and debunk - in our Myth Check video series:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/uyyrZaOEGlk
@TIB_AVPortal: https://doi.org/10.5446/62327

‼️ And beware of #Predatory Journals, because they do not have the high quality standards of a serious #OpenAccess journal ‼️

"Open Access hat nicht die gleiche Qaulität wie eine Veröffentlichung bei einem traditionellen Verlag!" So lautet eins von vier Vorurteilen, die wir in unserer Videoreihe Mythencheck genauer unter die Lupe nehmen – und entkräftigen:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/6cdhzAYCvs8
@TIB_AVPortal: https://doi.org/10.5446/62322

‼️ Und Vorsicht vor #Predatory Journals, denn diese verfügen nicht über die hohen Qualitätsstandards einer seriösen #OpenAccess. ‼️

Costly invite? Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at #COVID19 ‘#webinars’

👉 Researchers are fighting back against a mysterious conference organizer and an arbitration court that may not exist...

https://www.science.org/content/article/costly-invite-scientists-hit-with-massive-bills-after-speaking-at-covid-19-conferences

#Science #AAAS #ethics #predatory #PredatoryConferences #VillaEuropa

DAMN YOU BERNAYS
humanities greatest enemy…

The Age of Advertising Must Come to an End

https://antoniomelonio.substack.com/p/the-age-of-advertising-must-come

Advertisements are a scourge upon society, the environment, and ourselves. They are among the worst capitalism has to offer. Why not get rid of them?

#manipulation #triggers #predatory #psychologicalassault #trauma #fullyimmersed

Navajo police scour city streets for houseless victims

https://ictnews.org/news/navajo-police-scour-city-streets-for-houseless-victims

After Arizona shut down fraudulent treatment centers, thousands were dumped onto Phoenix Valley streets.
A scheme that targeted Indigenous people because of a loophole in the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System’s (AHCCCS) American Indian Health Program allowed individuals to pose as legitimate health care providers for behavioral health services and then allegedly bill the state for services that were never provided.

#fraud #IndigenousAccess #services #healthcare #Arizona #houseless #victims #predatory #capitalism #plutocracy #abandonment #rescue

[ebook] #Predatory Practices in Scholarly #Publishing and Knowledge Sharing: Causes and Implications for Scholarship. Routledge

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170723

#PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishers #PredatoryPublishing #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #OAPred #OpenAccess #HigherEd #research #ethics

cc @Bernardpo

This article advocating the abolition of #APCs would be more interesting if it fixed a few problems.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096522992300047X

It says w/o evidence that "most" APC-based journals are #predatory.

It says incorrectly that US #copyright law bars scholars at some public universities from transferring copyrights to publishers. (Close: work by govt employees is uncopyrightable.)

It's aware of APC waivers but not no-APC OA journals (#DiamondOA), their numbers, and the many initiatives to foster them.

If #predatory #journals are very low in quality, dishonest, or both (my quick and dirty def), then the category covers both #subscription and #OA journals. Their defining condition is independent of their open/closed status.

To see this, it helps to point out non-OA examples now and then.

See the reporting from #RetractionWatch on the Journal of Electronic Imaging.
https://retractionwatch.com/2023/06/20/deplorable-imaging-journal-to-retract-nearly-80-papers-for-compromised-peer-review/

The dream that was #reddit died with Aaron Swartz. I miss the site that was but I will not miss the turd it's become. #apollo #predatory #appecosystem

#Predatory #Journals vs Scientific Library https://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/65425

Never comfortable with the fact that private companies recommend themselves in publications as experts to consult...🤔

#scholcomm #publishing #libraries #Clarivate #predatorypublishing

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sandro-galea-public-health-reason/

Poverty is manufactured: The well-off and with #predatory #elites, who enact #extractive and #exploitative policies to #CreatePoverty and #entrench it, in America, across the world, and across history.

The #Duggar Family's Ties to #Predatory #Religious #Right Institute in Basic Life Principles
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/bill-berkowitz/106384/the-duggar-familys-ties-to-predatory-religious-right-institute-in-basic-life-principles

"A new industry is extracting fees from well-heeled families to enable their teenage children to conduct and publish research that colleges may regard as a credential."
https://www.propublica.org/article/college-high-school-research-peer-review-publications

Please read the whole thing. This is not about #predatory journals in the usual sense. It's a new kind of #misconduct, both on the #publishing side and the side of parents buying #university slots that would have gone to worthy #students from less chiseling families.

#academia
@academicchatter