Tag Archives for Misinformation
Open Access and Predatory Publishing
Online connection is the fabric of contemporary life. We are all aware that the Internet and World Wide Web provide extraordinarily dynamic and virtually instantaneous options for communication and access to information. Scientific publication has kept abreast of this trend, … Continue reading
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Predatory Publishing but Were Afraid to Ask
Librarians have a key role to play in educating users about predatory publishing. Predatory publishing can be described as low quality, amateurish, and often unethical academic publishing that is usually Open Access (OA). Understanding predatory publishing helps authors to make … Continue reading
False gold: Safely navigating open access publishing to avoid predatory publishers and journals
The aim of this study was to review and discuss predatory open access publishing in the context of nursing and midwifery and develop a set of guidelines that serve as a framework to help clinicians, educators and researchers avoid predatory … Continue reading
Predatory Publishing and Academic Integrity: A Perspective Statement on Retraction of Neurosurgical Publications: A Systematic Review
Despite the increasing awareness of scientific fraud, no attempt has been made to assess its prevalence in neurosurgery. The aim of our review was to assess the chronologic trend, reasons, research type/design, and country of origin of retracted neurosurgical publications. … Continue reading
Predatory publishing: an emerging threat to the medical literature
The quality of medical literature is increasingly threatened by irresponsible publishing, leading to rising retraction rates, irreproducible results, and a flood of inconsequential publications that distract readers from more meaningful scholarship. “Predatory publishers” offer rapid publication with loose peer review, … Continue reading
Where is scientific publishing heading?
The scientific publication industry is undergoing dramatic changes. The number of journals continues to increase, competing for the best papers, as evidenced by the large number of invitations we receive. With many journals remaining in the traditional format, relying on … Continue reading
Says who? Librarians tackle fake news
Like many, the librarians at Aquinas College were concerned about the impact that fake—and just plain inaccurate—news had on the political discourse surrounding the 2016 election. Our concerns intensified when, on the heels of the election, the Stanford History Education … Continue reading
The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online
Experts are evenly split on whether the coming decade will see a reduction in false and misleading narratives online. Those forecasting improvement place their hopes in technological fixes and in societal solutions. Others think the dark side of human nature … Continue reading
What Jeffrey Beall Learned From Predatory Publishers
Predatory publishers use the gold (author pays) open access model and aim to generate as much revenue as possible, often foregoing a proper peer review. The paper details how predatory publishers came to exist and shows how they were largely … Continue reading
Conference Paper: “News Verification Suite: Towards System Design to Supplement Reporters’ and Editors’ Judgements”
The News Verification Suite aims to provide users with a set of functions to verify information in the news. This paper offers a conceptual basis and a vision of system elements towards automated fact-checking in news production, curation, and consumption. … Continue reading