Predatory publishing and global scholarly communications / Monica Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, Monica, author.

Series:

ACRL publications in librarianship ; no. 81.

ACRL publications in librarianship ; no. 81

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in learning and scholarship--Moral and ethical aspects.

Communication in learning and scholarship.

Scholarly publishing--Corrupt practices.

Scholarly publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 337 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Monica Berger, [2024]

Summary:

Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications gives powerful insight into predatory publishing across the world, inside and outside of the library community, and provides tools for understanding and teaching its impact and contributing to its improvement.

Contents:

Part 1. Background. Introduction

Predatory publishing's history and open access

Shortcuts and shortcomings: Neoliberalism and its effects

Part 2. Characteristics and research. Predatory publishing characteristics in detail

The research on publishers and authors

The research on editors, evaluators, spam, indexing, citation, and bibliometrics

Part 3. The geopolitics of scholarly publishing. The global South, the Bohannon Sting, and predatory publishing

India, Sub-Saharan Africa, and China

Other countries, the geopolitics of predatory publishing, and solutions from the South

Part 4. Responses and solutions. Responses and solutions to predatory publishing from the scholarly community

Librarians and pedagogical solutions to predatory publishing: Scholarly information literacy and publication quality

Librarians and pedagogical solutions to predatory publishing: Teaching scholars from undergraduates to faculty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780838989562

083898956X

OCLC:

1429613908