What are Predatory Journals?
As a health professional, you live and work in an evidence-based practice era. In order for health professionals to utilize information from research, we must be able to access the research. A few years ago, most journal articles had to be purchased or you were required to subscribe to the journal. Over the past few years, there has been a flood of open access (OA) journals into the research system. The only problem with this is, some of these open access journals are less than acceptable.
I have been doing an incredible amount of research on the update of my new seminar and book that I am writing. I seem to spend more time evaluating the credibility of a journal than reading it, it seems. There are a number of distinguished sites that give their opinion of predatory journals and I have linked them to this post for your information.
