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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Bruce and Ina,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Yes the publish or perish syndrome drives many academics to publish in predatory journals, even knowing that they are predatory. This
is a big problem in India and other developing countries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">You can find quite a lot about predatory publishing practices, etc. on my LibGuide at:</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Bruce Becker [mailto:BBecker@csir.co.za]
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<b>Sent:</b> 22 May 2017 12:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ina Smith <Ina@assaf.org.za><br>
<b>Cc:</b> heligliasa@googlegroups.com; Tom Olijhoek <tom@doaj.org>; SandileWilliams <Williams.Sandile@dhet.gov.za>; lars@doaj.org; irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za; Walter Ntuli <Ntuli.W@dhet.gov.za><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [IRTalk] Predatory journals - A threat to academic credibility<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey Ina , Denise.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for putting some clarity to my vagueness... I try to keep track of these things, but it's really a job best done by people in the publishing space such as yourselves. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I guess that brings up a fair point, which I was trying to emphasise before - these predators function so well because there is no counter-narrative. The primacy of publishing in the academic world, over other forms of contribution and
progress, maybe has something to do with this. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As long as we have the "publish-or-perish" paradigm, I fear the best we can do is to construct the narrative of "yes, publish, but watch out for these guys !" to accompany researchers as they go through their undergrad and postgrad careers. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Speaking as a physicists, we never had any issue like this in my community, because it promotes intense pre-publication peer review (indeed, physicists are known to be pretty hardcore about ripping each other to shreds at conferences -
or maybe it's just the HEP people). Clearly this also has down sides... but it's the strong, interconnected community that ensures quality at the end of the day. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I really feel for the history, economics, etc researcher who feels lost in the noise, and is constantly pressured to publish. The temptation to send off a manuscript to whoever reaches out to you must be overwhelming at times...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Again, I think a _blacklist_ rather than a whitelist would be the best thing to maintain, and the methods and data used when creating that blacklist must be public, and owned by a neutral third party, who is not subject to blackmail or
pressure such as Beall may have been. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 22 May 2017 at 12:00, Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Bruce</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This such an important issue – I agree … Tax payers money going to these predators,
and we should do all we can to stop this practice.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The
<a href="https://doaj.org/" target="_blank">Directory of Open Access Journals</a> does great work in terms of evaluating OA journals, and only allows high quality OA journals to be listed in their directory. So we encourage all African and South African scholarly
journals to apply for inclusion in DOAJ. Would be great if all editors, librarians on the continent can assist with growing this trusted list of OA journals. After all – created by the community, for the community, and we should all be watch dogs.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The list your refer to the Bealls List?</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Would be great to hear what other colleagues on the two mailing lists think?</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bruce Becker<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 22, 2017 11:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:heligliasa@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">heligliasa@googlegroups.com</a>;
<a href="mailto:irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za" target="_blank">irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [IRTalk] Predatory journals - A threat to academic credibility</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">This is quite a serious problem, we all know. There used to be a project maintained by someone in the U.S. documenting the list of predatory publishers out there,
which, if my memory serves me, was shut down due to pressure from the university where he worked. (if someone can remember better than me, please remind us !)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">My point is that it would be extremely useful to have an authoritative list, perhaps reviewed biennially, published by AOSP, or AUU. These lists are necessarily
biased, and perhaps some people may claim that they perpetuate colonial dominance, by discrediting African journals - so some care has to be taken in publishing a list with thorough and transparent methods and results (hey, what's more Open Science than that
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Certainly, each institute can decide how to use such lists - perhaps augment them, contribute back, or ignore them entirely - but at least we would have a source
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Are there any efforts underway to conduct such research and publish such lists in an authoritative way ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">“In academia today there is huge pressure to publish, and publish fast,” said Professor Johann Mouton, director of the Centre for Research on Science and Technology, or CREST, and the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics
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<span style="background:white">“It’s important for university rankings and research metrics. It is important for academic careers – you don’t get ahead if you don’t publish. So academics are now turning to these predatory journals.”</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">In a recent study undertaken by CREST it was found that 40 PhD students in Ghana had published papers in predatory journals. “They didn’t know they were predatory. But it comes out later when they are up for promotion,” said Mouton.</span><br>
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of Social Sciences</i>, followed by 413 in the<span class="m8068108542240732353m355380199431514156apple-converted-space"> </span><i>African Journal of Business Management</i><span class="m8068108542240732353m355380199431514156apple-converted-space"> </span>and
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<span style="background:white">The authors came from a broad spectrum of South African universities including those with high rankings. But the authors are not to blame, according to Mouton, as they published in good faith as some of these predatory journals
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