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RIO Meeting Fall 2022: Addressing predatory publishing

Activity

Research and report on one of the five strategies to address predatory publishing
1. Have another topic? Great! Use it instead.
Make groups of 3 to 4, each group addressing a different topic
Be prepared to report back to the larger group

Addressing Predatory Publishing

LibGuides or other sources that address predatory publications (whitelists, blacklists, etc.)

Purdue University Fort Wayne's "Publishing Resources" LibGuide
See "Identifying Questionable Journals" section
Beall's List of Publishers

Instructional strategies that address predatory publications

Marian University's case-based library instruction session
Scoundrels Day: Promoting Active Learning in Nursing Research through librarian-presented case-based problem solving challenges

Outreach to teaching faculty on predatory publications when seeking to publish

Stanford University Libraries publishing workshops
See winter 2017 for workshops related directly to publishing

Handling sources from predatory publications held in locally ran systems (i.e. institutional repository)

(Formerly) IPFW’s assessment of IR material
David Dunham's I don’t want my article next to that: Educating faculty and graduate students about issues of open access, institutional repositories, and “predatory” publishers

Leveraging resources at-scale (consortiums, professional organizations)

AMWA – EMWA – ISMPP Joint Position Statement on Predatory Publishing
July 2019. American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), European Medical Writers Association (EMWA), and International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP)