Sharing your scholarship while avoiding the predators: Guidelines for medical physicists interested in open access publishing

摘要

As a librarian who works for an academic publisher, I often hear from faculty members and colleagues who have received appeals to serve on editorial boards of journals they have never heard of, unsolicited requests to submit manuscripts to dubious publications, and suspect invitations to generic-sounding conferences in exotic locales. Collectively, this activity is often described as "predatory" publishing, as its primary objective is to generate revenue rather than further scholarship.