Open Access Journals and Predatory Publishing :Detective Mechanisms for Information Seekers and LIS Researchers
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Abstract
Predatory publications are proliferating on the open-access market at an alarming rate, and they are getting better at imitating respectable journals. This paper examines the detective mechanisms for information seekers and LIS researchers for identifying open-access journals and predatory publishing. The systematic review was used to gather and collect relevant and recent literature in tandem with the topic under study. Findings revealed that it can be difficult to identify a predatory journal in practice because there are no distinct lines separating journals that adhere to moral editorial standards from those that are only used to extort publication fees. It is believed that using articles and publishing in predatory journals would affect library and information science research. The paper suggested that there is an urgent need for more information to alert LIS researchers and information seekers to the dangers of predatory journals.
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