Predatory Open Access Publishers and other Dangers to Today's Scientific Community Cover Image

Predátorští vydavatelé s otevřeným přístupem k obsahu a další nebezpečí pro současnou vědeckou komunitu
Predatory Open Access Publishers and other Dangers to Today's Scientific Community

Author(s): Zdeněk Smutný, Václav Řezníček
Subject(s): Education, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
Keywords: Beall's List; predatory publishers; scholarly journals; vanity press; virtual conferences

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to introduce a summary and current state of the issue of predatory open access publishers and to critically discuss general predatory behaviour and related topics in the Czech and international context. The article summarizes outputs of the first foreign studies dealing with predatory publishers and journals. We find that although in the past three years, the issue of predation is actively addressed in foreign countries, the Czech higher education institutions are not prepared for this new phenomenon as well as most of academics and researchers do not know about it at all. The text highlights the threats with which the scientific community (science and education in general) is confronted and proposes countermeasures from the view of an individual and higher education institutions. At the end of the article, there are mentioned trends in the behaviour of predatory publishers and dilemmas which non-predatory journal publishers and international indexing databases are faced with.

  • Issue Year: 4/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 182-200
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Czech