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 …

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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 …

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 …

CFP: AACN (Faculty Development & Baccalaureate Ed)

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) invites you to submit YOUR abstract to the Faculty Development Conference and/or the Baccalaureate Education Conference. Content must relate to each conference as stated below and as further outlined in the detailed Call for Abstracts. We look forward to your submissions! All submissions are due on August 14.