ALPSP: Navigating through the minefield of predatory publishing

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers offers some timely and concise guidance on avoiding the perishable publishing of predatory online open access journals:

http://blog.alpsp.org/2017/08/KnowledgeE.html 

CFS: Hispanohablantes Nativos y el Sistema Estadounidiense de Atención de la Salud

Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (Johns Hopkins University Press) is
soliciting stories in English or Spanish for a symposium on Native Spanish
Speakers and the US health care system.  They plan to translate all stories
and publish the entire symposium in both English and Spanish.  The call for
stories is available in English and Spanish here:

http://nibjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Spanish_Call_All_Docs.pdf

CFP: Global Health & Innovation Conference

Global Health & Innovation Conference
April 14-15, 2018 | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
15th annual conference

The Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on April 14-15, 2018, is the world’s leading and largest global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,000 professionals and students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries. This must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changemakers, professionals and students from all sectors of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.

Apply to present at the Global Health & Innovation Conference! August 31 is the first round abstract submission deadline.  Read more about the presentation opportunities and the abstract submission process.

CFS: School Safety (J of School Nursing)

Submit your research to The Journal of School Nursing special issue

 

The Journal of School Nursing August 2018 special issue will report research manuscripts exploring school safety. Topics of interest include safety related to intentional and unintentional violence and injury, including motor vehicle crashes, school violence, youth violence, sexual violence and suicide. Manuscripts addressing safety in sports, athletics and playgrounds are also welcomed. Finally, school health services manuscripts in medication safety and disaster preparedness will also be considered. Of interest are manuscripts representing a range of study designs including but not limited to literature reviews, epidemiologic studies, interventions or survey studies exploring school safety. The manuscripts should include implications for school nursing and school health services. Manuscripts will receive a rigorous peer review. The multidisciplinary audience includes researchers, school nurse clinicians and other school health services providers. First decision is available in less than 25 days. Publication at OnlineFirst is approximately 30 days after final acceptance. Manuscripts should be submitted by December 1, 2017. Contact Dr. Julia Muennich Cowell, Executive Editor, for questions. Submit your manuscript

Think. Check. Submit.

With the closing earlier this year of Jeffrey Beall’s ScholarlyOA web site and the recent introduction of a subscription service that reviews online open-access journals, there is still a space for open-access guidance to scholars and researchers.

Consider Think. Check. Submit. http://thinkchecksubmit.org/

Sharing research results with the world is key to the progress of your discipline and career. But with so many publications, how can you be sure you can trust a particular journal? Follow this check list to make sure you choose trusted journals for your research.

Predatory Online Open-Access Journals: Cabell’s White/Black Lists

As readers of NursingWriting.com are familiar, a profusion of online open-access journals, many with dubious review, editing, and publishing practices and dependent on authors’ fees (rather than subscriptions) has created problems for researchers, students and clinicians.

Previously, a web site run by Jeffrey Beall (ScholarlyOA) as a volunteer effort outside his day job offered frank assessments of publishers and journals (though often not without controversy). That site was closed down earlier this year.

Now, however, the commercial publisher Cabells has developed a White List (good journals) and Black List (bad journals), available for a subscription fee.

You can find a review here: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/07/25/cabells-new-predatory-journal-blacklist-review/ 

And the Cabells site here: https://cabells.com/

Help with Predatory Online Open-Access Journals

As some of you know, librarian Jeffrey Beall’s ScholarlyOA web site (which provided Beall’s running list of “possibly/probably predatory online journals”) was shut down earlier this year.

In its absence, these suggestions are also helpful (from here: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49862/title/Identifying-Predatory-Publishers/ )

DECIDING WHERE TO PUBLISH

Get started early. While it’s often an afterthought, consider where to submit your manuscript early on, says Andy Pleffer of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. “Think about it up front so you’ve got a longer lead-in time and you can create a longer list of where you might publish. Especially if you’ve got a particular journal on your radar, they might have a special issue coming up that ties in quite neatly with your particular expertise.”

Scan the TOC. Are there any familiar names in the journal’s table of contents? Do you recognize any members of the journal’s editorial advisory board? If the answers to both are no, it’s probably worth looking into alternative titles, says Chad Cook of Duke University.

Read the journal’s policies. Familiarize yourself with the publication’s peer-review process, author fees, and policies pertaining to copyright, access, and conflicts of interest. All should be clearly outlined on the journal’s website.

Beware of “Contact us.” While not always a sign of a suspect publication, journals that do not list editorial staff phone or email contact information—instead, offering only a “contact us” form—is “usually a red flag,” says Pleffer.

Check DOAJ. Look to see if the publication is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals and other scholarly databases, and is indexed on PubMed or by the Institute for Scientific Information. If it’s not, proceed with caution.

SHOULD YOU JOIN THE BOARD?

Have you published in the journal? If yes, how was the overall experience? If no, have any of your colleagues or your collaborators’ colleagues?

Email overload. “If you get an invitation through email, be extremely suspicious,” says Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado Denver. “Most high-quality journals don’t go looking for editorial boards through email. It’s usually the other way around: people want to serve on a particular journal’s editorial board, and they will send an email to the journal.”

Standing members. Examine the journal’s existing board. Do you recognize any names? Are any of the board members senior scientists?  “What I noticed from the beginning was that there were really no well-known people [on the board]. A lot of the people were junior people, like myself,” the University of Kentucky’s Björn Bauer says of his experience with Pharmacologia. Additionally, do the board members list their participation with the journal on their CVs or biosketches? “If they back that up on their profile, that’s generally a good sign,” says Pleffer.