Predatory Practices in Scholarly Publishing and Knowledge Sharing

Pejman Habibie is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics & TESOL at Western University, Canada. Ismaeil Fazel is Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

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