From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:39:55 +0100

It is great that Richard has raised this question and his sensible
thought about it. We (CIBER) have done some work which touches on
this. The easiest access is to the report which is a:

http://www.ciber-research.eu/download/20140115-Trust_Final_Report.pdf

Like other academic researchers, we are also deluged with invitations.
Anyone reading this should read the comments that Richard's blog has
already provoked. Bev Acreman has mentioned there publishers have
their own initiative and by publishers I include OASPA members: the
site is in Beta at:

http://thinkchecksubmit.org/

As I write it is being announced at the ALPSP conference by Tom Mowlam
of Ubiquity Press. As to the question of who publishes in these
journals see Xia, Jingfeng et al 2015. Who Publishes in “Predatory”
Journals? Journal of the Association for Information Science and
Technology, 66 (7): 1406-1417. Doi: 10.1002/asi.23265.

The ISSN International Centre are concerned about and working on how
they allocate ISSNs. I am copying Gaelle Bequet who may not be on this
list and asking her if she wishes to communicate through me.

Anthony

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From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 14:34:33 +0100

What many now refer to as predatory publishing first came to my
attention 7 years ago, when I interviewed a publisher who — I had been
told — was bombarding researchers with invitations to submit papers
to, and sit on the editorial boards of, the hundreds of new OA
journals it was launching.

Since then I have undertaken a number of other such interviews, and
with each interview the allegations have tended to become more
worrying — e.g. that the publisher is levying article-processing
charges but not actually sending papers out for review, that it is
publishing junk science, that it is claiming to be a member of a
publishing organisation when in reality it is not a member, that it is
deliberately choosing journal titles that are the same, or very
similar, to those of prestigious journals (or even directly cloning
titles) in order to fool researchers into submitting papers to it etc. etc.

The number of predatory publishers continues to grow year by year, and
yet far too little is still being done to address the issue.

Discussion of the problem invariably focuses on the publishers. But in
order to practise their trade predatory publishers depend on the
co-operation of researchers, not least because they have to persuade a
sufficient number to sit on their editorial boards in order to have
any credibility. Without an editorial board a journal will struggle to
attract many submissions.

Is it time to approach the problem from a different direction?

More here:
http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/predatory-publishing-modest-proposal.html