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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:heather.thuynsma@up.ac.za">heather.thuynsma@up.ac.za</a> <<a href="mailto:heather.thuynsma@up.ac.za">heather.thuynsma@up.ac.za</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Humanities Spokesperson<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 6, 2021 4:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:hum@kendy.up.ac.za">hum@kendy.up.ac.za</a><br><b>Subject:</b> ALERT: POTENTIALLY FAKE PUBLISHERS</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dear Humanities Colleagues</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">It seems as if predatory journals have found a new strategy to exploit unsuspecting academics. There have, for example, been reports of scammers developing parallel websites for accredited journals . These sites have reproduced the relevant content and send invitations for authors to submit articles. Here are a few journals that have been “hi-jacked” in this way:</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Preslia</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">REAL: </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.preslia.cz/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.preslia.cz/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"><br>FAKE: </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://presliajournal.com/index.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://presliajournal.com/index.html</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Wulfenia</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">REAL: </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://landesmuseum.ktn.gv.at/wulfenia"><span lang="EN-US">https://landesmuseum.ktn.gv.at/wulfenia</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"><br>FAKE: </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue"><a href="http://www.multidisciplinarywulfenia.org/index.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.multidisciplinarywulfenia.org/index.html</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"> </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Boreal Environment Research</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">REAL: </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.borenv.net/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.borenv.net/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"><br>FAKE: </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.borenv.com/index.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.borenv.com/index.html</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">To help you recognise potentially fake publishers, our Faculty Librarian, </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:viveka.pillai@up.ac.za">Ms Viveka Pillai</a><span style="color:black"> has put together this quick reference guide. We also strongly suggest that you consult the dedicated libguide which is available </span><a href="https://up-za.libguides.com/c.php?g=834649">here</a><span style="color:black">.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#c55a11">Characteristics of Potentially Fake Publishers:</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Usually online-only scholarly publishing entities with unsavoury intentions</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Claim to be open access</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Claim basic editorial services</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">They make money by collecting very low fees (article processing charges)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Open access journals that are essentially profit-making entities; they are not interested in disseminating high-quality research findings.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#c55a11">How to spot a Potentially Fake Journal:</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Who is the Journal’s editor?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Is there an editorial body? If not, then the Journal is suspicious. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Does the website list the full names, affiliations and contact details of members of the Editorial Board?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Can you verify the Board members and their academic affiliations?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Is the Journal title unique? Or is it very similar to an already well-known title?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Does the Journal have a ridiculously broad scope?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Does the Journal website clearly demonstrate that it is bound to ethical and professional standards?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">What impact factors does the Journal cite? If these statistics are too high then it is unlikely to be true.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#c55a11">Be aware of:</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Publishers who solicit manuscripts by spamming authors with overly effusive and ego-stroking emails</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Publishers with g-mail / hotmail / yahoo accounts</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Poor grammar and syntax, many exclamation marks, brightly coloured fonts</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Promises a “quick peer-review process”</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Author fee / Article Processing Charge’s should be clearly stated and identifiable before you submit your article for review </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Copyright and licensing information should be clearly described. If the Journal is open access then it should be protected by the Creative Commons license</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#c55a11">POTENTIALLY FAKE CONFERENCES</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Conferences organised by event planners</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Appear to be academic / scholarly, but are entirely focused on making money</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Conferences have similar titles to well-known and reputable academic conferences. In some cases, the conference title is present as the same but with a slight variation in punctuation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Often called “Global” or “International”</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Usually offer broad topics, covering multiple fields of science</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Examples:</span></u></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">International Conference on Life Sciences and Biological Engineering</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">International Conference on Education, Psychology and Social Sciences</span></li></ul></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">If you have any further questions please feel free to contact Ms Viveka Pillai or your specific Information Specialist. </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><div><div><div><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in"><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#5d5d5d">Faculty of Humanities</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4472c4"><a href="http://www.up.ac.za/faculty-of-humanities" target="_blank"><span style="color:#4472c4">www.up.ac.za/faculty-of-humanities</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#ff8000">______________________________________________</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4472c4"><img border="0" width="514" height="155" style="width:5.3541in;height:1.6145in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://castup.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/banner.png"></span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4472c4"> </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4472c4"> </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>
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