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United Arab Emirates University Scholarworks@UAEU Abstracts Conferences and Symposia Summer 6-2019 Predatory journals: a growing issue within the open access model Linda Östlundh National Medical Library, UAE University, Al Ain, lostlundh@uaeu.ac.ae Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uaeu.ac.ae/abstracts  Part of the Health Sciences and Medical Librarianship Commons Recommended Citation Östlundh, L. (2019, October). Predatory journals, a growing issue within the open access model. Paper presented at the 5th UAE Libraries Symposium, Dubai, UAE. This Abstract is brought to you for free and open access by the Conferences and Symposia at Scholarworks@UAEU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Abstracts by an authorized administrator of Scholarworks@UAEU. For more information, please contact fadl.musa@uaeu.ac.ae.            Predatory Journals  A growing concern within the open access publishing model  Linda Östlundh Director, the National Medical Library, UAEU             التسامح المعلوماتي وتطبيقاته في المكتبات ومؤسسات المعلوماتTolerance of Information: Applications in Library and Information Institutions  The Cultural & Scientific Association, Dubai, 20th October  2019أكتوبر 20ندوة الثقافة والعلوم بدبي،  Abstract  The growing number of predatory journals within the open access publishing model is an increasing concern for information users and researchers. With false promises of high scientific quality, low turnaround time for publishing manuscripts and no or very low submission costs, the predatory journals illicitly generate profit by targeting researchers and information seekers that are in immediate need of information.   The predatory journals and their websites are designed to imitate legitimate and high-quality publications and some open access journals have been hijacked and copied in order to deceive the readers to believe it’s the original journal. Publishing in predatory journals can potentially damage the career of researchers and information seekers are misled to information of false or poor scientific standards.  Relating to information tolerance, predatory publishing has a negative impact on the concept of open access where information seekers and researchers without access to expensive information sources or research funding are specifically affected by these highly questionable marketing strategies. By providing information about the nature of predatory publishing and guide users to high quality open access journals, librarians can support researchers to practice safe publishing and provide users with tools to separate high quality open access journals from predatory journals.  Keywords: predatory journals; open access publishing; information tolerance; blacklists; whitelists; librarians; libraries   

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