Lecture 6.2.: Open Access, Open Access Publishing, Predatory Practices (Elina Koivisto)

In this lecture, Elina Koivisto addresses the topics of open access, open access publishing, and predatory practices. The first segment of the lecture provides a definition of open access, showcases various types of open access, and elucidates their distinctions. The subsequent segment explores the advantages of open access as well as some negative consequences associated with publishing in general and open access publishing specifically. The concluding segment is dedicated to predatory practices; it defines these practices and offers guidance on how to avoid them.

Watch the lecture and then answer the questions. 

Further reading: 

The Embassy of Good Science: “Predatory publishing” 

Beall, J. (2015). Criteria for determining predatory open access publishers. https://beallslist.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/criteria-2015.pdf

COPE Council (2019). COPE Discussion Document: Predatory Publishing. https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.3.6

Mishra, S., Das, A. K. (2015). Sharing your work in open access, UNESCO Digital Library. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000232211.locale=en 

ROSiE General Guidelines on Responsible Open Science. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10046520

Beall, J. (2017). What I learned from predatory publishers. Biochemia medica, 27(2), 273-278. https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2017.029