1. Business Librarians Confronting Predatory Publishing
Marydee Ojala
Editor-in-Chief, Online Searcher: Information Discovery, Technology, Strategies

2. Predatory Journals
Predatory journals are a scourge upon the information/library landscape
They waste time, spread spurious information, diminish the power of scholarly research, and damage reputations
And there are more of them all the time
We hear a lot about the impact on science, but what
about business?
Should we worry?
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3. Should we worry? Fewer predatory journals in business than in science
Not as much grant money to support high APCs
Risk is to reputation more than potential health/safety risk in science/medicine
Beall biased against Oa and non-Western countries
Threat is real
FTC & OMICS (publishes 14 titles it classifies as “Business & Management”)
OMICS ordered to pay $50.1 million for deceptive practices
Remember that ISSN is no guarantee of non-predatory behavior

4. Predatory journal stats
Beall’s list is gone but other sites are trying to keep up the list
Beallslist.weebly.com; predatoryjournals.com/journals
We don’t know who the responsible parties are for these websites; We do know about Kscien
kscien.org/predatory.php (from Kscien Organization for Scientific Research, Kurdistan)
Cabell’s Blacklist
Fee-based
Now has 12,000 journal titles with another 1,000 under consideration
DOAJ (doaj.org) weeding out predatory titles
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5. Predatory business journals
Beall’s List (Weebly) has 45 titles with “business” in title from original list and 7 added in May 2019
DOAJ has 99 titles with “business” in title
No overlap between Beall and DOAJ
Spot checking titles on Beall’s List revealed
At least 4 aren’t predatory
8 URLs no longer there (either 404 or redirect to non-journal site)
2 exist but no journal articles appear
Most have expired copyright date for website
Majority of actual predatory titles are in volumes 5 or 6

6. Reputations Are At Stake
“How I became easy prey to a predatory publisher” by Alan H. Chambers, Science Magazine, May 9, (sciencemag.org/careers/2019/05/how-i-became-easy-prey- predatory-publisher)
If it happens:
Claim copyright infringement
Send cease and desist order
Send take down notice
Contact legitimate publisher if article is also submitted there
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7. Contact details Marydee Ojala
Editor-in-Chief, Online Searcher (