Spotlight: Predatory Journals and the E-Resources Predatory Journals Project
Behind the Scenes: The E-Resources Predatory Journals Project - If you’ve ever searched for journal articles online, you’ve probably come across terms like open access or peer reviewed . But there’s another term worth knowing — predatory journals . These are the questionable ones that charge hefty author fees but also skip proper peer review. The y look professional, but underneath, they’re more about profit than genuine scholarship. For students and researchers, that’s a major concern — because poor-quality or misleading research can slip through their pages and end up being cited as fact. Over the last year, our E-Resources team has been working on a project to identify and flag potentially predatory journals appearing in our library systems. It’s a bit like academic detective work. We’ve been pulling information from sources like Beall’s List and PredatoryJournals.org, reviewing titles one by one, and removing the more obvious offenders from our d...