This volume offers comprehensive examination of “predatory” practices in scholarly publishing, and highlights emergent issues around predatory journals, Open Access (OA), and scam conferences.
Chapters engage multiple methodologies, including corpus, discourse, and genre analysis, as well as historical and autoethnographic approaches to offer in-depth, empirical analyses of the causes, practices, and implications of predatory practices for scholars. Contributors span a broad range of disciplines and geolocations, presenting a diverse range of perspectives. The volume also outlines effective initiatives for the identification of predatory practices and considers steps to increase understanding of viable publishing options.
Providing a needed exploration of predatory research practices, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in higher education, publishing, and communication ethics.
This volume offers comprehensive examination of ‘predatory’ practices in scholarly publishing, and highlights emergent issues around predatory journals, Open Access (OA), and scam conferences.
1. New Knowledge Economy and Predatory Practices Section 1: History,
Roots, and Circumstances
2. Predatory Publishers Spam Emails as a Symptom of
the Multiple Vulnerabilities in Academia
3. Exploring the Effects and Roots
of Predatory Practices in Science
4. Fake It till You Make It: Predatory
Publishing Realties in the Arab World
5. A Victims Tale: An
Auto-ethnographic Account of a Deceived Conference Delegate Section
2.
Discourses, Allures, and Attributes
6. Discourse Analysis of Presumed
Predatory and Legitimate Calls for Submissions
7. Spamvitations:
Examining Invitations to Submit Scholarly Work
8. Flattery, Flexibility, and
Font: How Predatory Journals Solicit Legitimate Scholarship Through Direct
Email
9. Who Is Hurt by Predatory Conferences? Section
3. Strategies,
Pedagogies, and Responses
10. What Those Responsible for Open Infrastructure
in Scholarly Communication Can Do about Possibly Predatory Practices
11. No
More Excuses. Stop the Ridiculous and Humiliating Predatory Publishing Farce
Now
12. Supporting Graduate Students to Avoid Predatory Publishing and
Questionable Conferences
13. Promoting Awareness, Reflection and Dialogue to
Deter Students Predatory Publishing
14. Academic Librarians and Pedagogical
Approaches to Deterring Predatory Publishing Conclusion
15. Predatory
Practices and Scholarly Communication: Future Directions and Orientations
Pejman Habibie is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics & TESOL at Western University, Canada.
Ismaeil Fazel is Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
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