Full Description
This volume offers comprehensive examination of "predatory" practices in scholarly publishing, and highlights emergent issues around predatory journals, Open Access (OA), and scam conferences.
Chapters engage multiple methodologies, including corpus, discourse, and genre analysis, as well as historical and autoethnographic approaches to offer in-depth, empirical analyses of the causes, practices, and implications of predatory practices for scholars. Contributors span a broad range of disciplines and geolocations, presenting a diverse range of perspectives. The volume also outlines effective initiatives for the identification of predatory practices and considers steps to increase understanding of viable publishing options.
Providing a needed exploration of predatory research practices, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in higher education, publishing, and communication ethics.
Contents
1. New Knowledge Economy and Predatory Practices Section 1: History, Roots, and Circumstances 2. Predatory Publishers' Spam Emails as a Symptom of the Multiple Vulnerabilities in Academia 3. Exploring the Effects and Roots of Predatory Practices in Science 4. Fake It till You Make It: Predatory Publishing Realties in the Arab World 5. A Victim's Tale: An Auto-ethnographic Account of a Deceived Conference Delegate Section 2. Discourses, Allures, and Attributes 6. Discourse Analysis of Presumed 'Predatory' and 'Legitimate' Calls for Submissions 7. Spamvitations: Examining Invitations to Submit Scholarly Work 8. Flattery, Flexibility, and Font: How Predatory Journals Solicit Legitimate Scholarship Through Direct Email 9. Who Is Hurt by Predatory Conferences? Section 3. Strategies, Pedagogies, and Responses 10. What Those Responsible for Open Infrastructure in Scholarly Communication Can Do about Possibly Predatory Practices 11. No More Excuses. Stop the Ridiculous and Humiliating Predatory Publishing Farce Now 12. Supporting Graduate Students to Avoid Predatory Publishing and Questionable Conferences 13. Promoting Awareness, Reflection and Dialogue to Deter Students' Predatory Publishing 14. Academic Librarians and Pedagogical Approaches to Deterring Predatory Publishing Conclusion 15. Predatory Practices and Scholarly Communication: Future Directions and Orientations
