This guide is designed to increase awareness of Predatory Publishing practices, guidelines on how to avoid, and how to seek assistance from information experts.
COPE provides leadership in thinking on publication ethics and practical resources to educate and support members, and offers a professional voice in current debates. Promoting integrity in scholarly research and its publication.
The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) is a membership organisation that was established in 2008 in order to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines.
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Published in Nature 576, 210-212 (2019).
Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach.
