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Predatory Open Access Publishers and other Dangers to Today's Scientific Community
[Predátorští vydavatelé s otevřeným přístupem k obsahu a další nebezpečí pro současnou vědeckou komunitu]

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  • Zdeněk Smutný
  • Václav Řezníček

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The aim of this paper is to introduce a summary and current state of the issue of predatory open access publishers and to critically discuss general predatory behaviour and related topics in the Czech and international context. The article summarizes outputs of the first foreign studies dealing with predatory publishers and journals. We find that although in the past three years, the issue of predation is actively addressed in foreign countries, the Czech higher education institutions are not prepared for this new phenomenon as well as most of academics and researchers do not know about it at all. The text highlights the threats with which the scientific community (science and education in general) is confronted and proposes countermeasures from the view of an individual and higher education institutions. At the end of the article, there are mentioned trends in the behaviour of predatory publishers and dilemmas which non-predatory journal publishers and international indexing databases are faced with.

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  • Zdeněk Smutný & Václav Řezníček, 2015. "Predatory Open Access Publishers and other Dangers to Today's Scientific Community [Predátorští vydavatelé s otevřeným přístupem k obsahu a další nebezpečí pro současnou vědeckou komunitu]," Acta Informatica Pragensia, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2015(2), pages 182-200.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlaip:v:2015:y:2015:i:2:id:69:p:182-200
    DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.69
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