Predatory Journals in Library Databases: How Much Should We Worry?

Nelson, Nerissa; Huffman, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/0361526x.2015.1080782

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“…Careful curation is particularly important with regard to the recent proliferation of so-called "predatory journals, some of which have been found in various databases. 15 These journals entice researchers with promises to publish articles quickly-for a price-without the delay of rigorous (or sometimes any) peer review. Most are open-access journals, so by association, this burgeoning business model threatens the legitimate open-access movement that seeks to make research freely available.…”

Section: The Recent Explosion Of "Fake News" Highlights the Need For mentioning

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Reflections on Fake News, Librarians, and Undergraduate Research

Rose-Wiles¹

2018

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The recent explosion of “fake news” highlights the need for academic libraries to provide access to reliable information resources and for librarians to instruct students in using them effectively. Providing reliable resources with minimal barriers to access involves cooperation among librarians, publishers, and vendors; however, I suggest that there is tension between our mutual desires to satisfy student demands for instant and perfect results and to encourage them to become persistent and critical information seekers. Many tools exist to assist students in gaining background information and limiting search results, but ultimately none replace the need to develop and explore questions and to evaluate information sources. In this paper, I reflect on the difficulties of persuading students to persist in using library resources and the use of Bernard Lonergan’s generalized empirical method as a framework for critical thinking and information literacy.

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Section: The Recent Explosion Of "Fake News" Highlights the Need For mentioning

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Reflections on Fake News, Librarians, and Undergraduate Research

Rose-Wiles¹

2018

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“…While other authors (Nelson;Huffman, 2015) have already analysed the presence of predatory journals in some specific databases, this research takes advantage of the wide coverage of the MIAR matrix (Rodríguez-Gairín; SomozaFernández; Urbano, 2011) to verify to what extent the journals considered predatory have been selected for appearing in more than 100 bibliographic databases. A journal that has a wide presence in databases does not exclude it from being predatory, but can focus the reader's attention on the cause of inclusion.…”

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Presence of alleged predatory journals in bibliographic databases: Analysis of Beall’s list

Somoza-Fernández¹,

Rodríguez‐Gairín²,

Urbano³

2016

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“…Careers may be irreparably damaged by publishing work in journals with questionable quality standards (McQuarie, ). Even good research published in predatory journals may diminish scholars’ reputations, if it becomes apparent that they did not identify a suspect journal (Nelson & Huffman, ), or chose to turn to a predatory journal to increase their publication numbers (McLeod et al., ). Tenure and/or promotion committees at “predatory aware” universities may raise doubts about the academic integrity of a faculty member who has been found to have published in a predatory journal (McLeod et al., ).…”

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confidence: 99%