Scholarly Open‐Access Publishing

Abstract

Scholarly open-access journals have the advantage of being freely accessible to all scholars, sparing libraries and individuals from having to pay subscription fees to access the content. Several distribution models have emerged for scholarly open-access (OA) journals, including the gold OA model, financed by article processing charges (APCs), the platinum model, free to both readers and authors and typically financed by an organization, and the green model, which involves authors self-archiving post-prints of their scholarly works in open-access repositories. The gold OA journal model has become an increasingly popular publishing venue since early the 2000s. Every new advancement comes with its own set of unique challenges. Unfortunately, the gold open-access model is being exploited by some publishers, who forgo a proper peer review and accept as many papers as possible just to earn the fees from authors. These unscrupulous publishers, called predatory publishers, are increasing in number and focus chiefly on scholarly authors and the fees they pay, leaving readers behind. Predatory publishers damage science by (i) publishing insufficiently backed-up work and papers that disappear from the internet shortly after publication, and (ii) failing to add the enhancements to the work that quality publishers conventionally provide, such as copyediting. This chapter reviews the current paradigm of scholarly OA publishing and provides a general guideline for defining predatory OA publishers.

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