Author Carpentry : Identifying reputable Open Access Journals

Content Contributors: Gail Clement

Lesson Maintainers: None

Lesson status: Future

What you will learn:

Review criteria for reputable open access journals established by Directory of Open Access Journals and COPE
Apply those criteria to an actual predatory journal (as evidence by the fact it is being prosecuted by US Government)
Apply those criteria to another OA journal of your choice to determine if it is reputable
Using the DOAJ datafile and OpenRefine, create a custom list of 10 reputable OA journals in your field of interest

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Requirements

Author Carpentry’s teaching is hands-on, so participants are encouraged to use their own computers to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow. These lessons assume no prior knowledge of the skills or tools, but working through this lesson requires working copies of the software described below. To most effectively use these materials, please make sure to install everything before working through this lesson.