{"id":10053,"date":"2019-03-07T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T12:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=10053"},"modified":"2019-03-07T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:57:54","slug":"predatory-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2019\/03\/07\/predatory-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"Predatory Journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been approached by agents or publishers offering to publish your work? If the contact was not initiated by you, there is a possibility that they are representing a predatory journal. Predatory journals are those which charge fees without proper editorial and publishing services. In order to help you Library and Learning Support offer quite a bit of guidance on <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.bournemouth.ac.uk\/researchers\/scholarly_publishing\">spotting predatory journals and conferences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Familiarising yourself with journal rankings and <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.bournemouth.ac.uk\/bibliometrics\">bibliometrics<\/a> is also a good way of recognising good-quality journals.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that BU Library subscribes to Web of Science and Scopus, two of the most important citation databases. These can be accessed through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/students\/library\/search-library-resources\/alphabetical-list-databases\">our alphabetical list of databases<\/a>. Web of Science and Scopus index some of the most high quality journals. This can be really useful when deciding where to publish your work.<\/p>\n<p>Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/doaj.org\/\">Directory of Open Access Journals<\/a>. DOAJ is an independent database of good quality, open access, peer reviewed journals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scimagojr.com\/\">Scimago<\/a> is another good source of information to confirm the quality of a journal. This resource contains additional indices of journals.<\/p>\n<p>In case of doubt regarding a journal, please contact your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/students\/library\/contact-us\">Faculty Library Team<\/a> for help and advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been approached by agents or publishers offering to publish your work? If the contact was not initiated by you, there is a possibility that they are representing a predatory journal. Predatory journals are those which charge fees without proper editorial and publishing services. In order to help you Library and Learning Support&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2019\/03\/07\/predatory-journals\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Predatory Journals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[1077,62,54],"class_list":["post-10053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-library-and-learning-support","tag-research","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10060,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions\/10060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}