POAP

Predatory Open Access Publishing (POAP): “an exploitative open-access publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals” Wikipedia, 2015open-accesspublication fees

A true story! January 29th, 2009 David Phillips and Andrew Kent The Open Information Science Journal (TOISCIJ), a journal that claims to enforce peer-review “Deconstructing Access Points” Using SCIgen, a software that generates grammatically correct structures.

Institutional affiliation: CRAP The Center for Research in Applied Phrenology based in New York A pseudoscience that involved linking bumps on a person's head to certain aspects of the individual's personality and character

“Deconstructing Access Points” In this section, we discuss existing research into red-black trees, vacuum tubes, and courseware [10]. On a similar note, recent work by Takahashi suggests a methodology for providing robust modalities, but does not offer an implementation [9].

“Deconstructing Access Points” In this section, we discuss existing research into red-black trees, vacuum tubes, and courseware [10]. On a similar note, recent work by Takahashi suggests a methodology for providing robust modalities, but does not offer an implementation [9].

Acceptance Letter This is to inform you that your submitted article has been accepted for publication after peer-reviewing process in TOISCIJ. I would be highly grateful to you if you please fill and sign the attached fee form and covering letter and send them back via as soon as possible to avoid further delay in publication.

Acceptance Letter This is to inform you that your submitted article has been accepted for publication after peer-reviewing process in TOISCIJ. I would be highly grateful to you if you please fill and sign the attached fee form and covering letter and send them back via as soon as possible to avoid further delay in publication. US$800, to be sent to a post office box in a complex in …

Dear Ms. Mokarram, I’m afraid that we have to retract this article. We have discovered several errors in the manuscript which question both the validity of the study and the results.

Beall’s List of Potential, Probable, or Possible Predatory Scholarly Open-Access Journals

The Rise of POAP Beall’s List of Potential, Probable, or Possible Predatory Scholarly Open-Access Journals

(Some) Give-away signs of POAP ● Being solicited to publish! ● Being asked to pay to publish (fast) According to Beall (2015) ● Editorial Staff ○ No editor/board; same editor for many journals; fake editor names; board lacks academic expertise, etc. ● Business Management ○ lack of transparency; lack of digital preservation; dependent on Author Processing Charges (APC); misleading about APC ● Integrity ○ misleading journal names; spam Call For Proposals; misleading claims about indexing; lack of preventing academic misconduct ● Academic practices ○ No actual editing or reviewing; rapid publication (e.g., 2 days), etc.

A note of caution! Not all OA is POAP!

SOLUTION(s)?

Being discerning about where we publish our intellectual capital and knowledge!

Publish in Haste, Repent at Leisure!

Viable options for publication Checking out reference lists in course syllabi Consulting supervisor/profs/peers

Association-affiliated journals International associations for example: TESOL Journals Interest Section Newsletters

Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics

Local associations for instance: BC TEAL publications!

University-affiliated journals for example: McGillMcGill Journal of Education

Legit open access journals that don’t charge extortionate APCs E.g. Sage Open, PLOS, Ampersand

E.g. Sage Open ( SAGE Open is an open access publication from SAGE. It publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. SAGE Open seeks to be the world's premier open access outlet for academic research. As such, it evaluates the scientific and research methods of each article for validity and accepts articles solely on the basis of the research. This approach allows readers greater access and gives them the power to determine the significance of each article through SAGE Open's interactive comments feature and article-level usage metrics. Likewise, by not restricting papers to a narrow discipline, SAGE Open facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers, whether within or between disciplines. SAGE Open requires authors to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) of $195 for publication. The APC is payable upon acceptance.

PLOS ONE is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. PLOS ONE welcomes reports on primary research from any scientific discipline. It provides: Open-access—freely accessible online, authors retain copyright Fast publication times Peer review by expert, practicing researchers Post-publication tools to indicate quality and impact Community-based dialogue on articles PLOS ONE (eISSN ) is published by PLOS, a nonprofit organization. PLOS ONE will rigorously peer-review your submissions and publish all papers that are judged to be technically sound. Judgments about the importance of any particular paper are then made after publication by the readership, who are the most qualified to determine what is of interest to them.

Scholars/grad students launching their own open access journals? E.g. Critical Education and Workplace

Further reading/links AAUP statement on open access ents/oastatement.pdf