Predatory publishers or journals are those which charge authors a fee for publication with no intention of providing the expected services – such as editorial or peer review – in return. Charging a fee is a legitimate business model, but the publisher should be providing a good publishing service in return.
The following sites provide information about ptredatory publishers; who they are, how to spot them and why you don't want your scholarship published in a predatory journal.
“By 'open access' to the literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself."
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Open access (OA) means free access to information and unrestricted use of electronic resources for everyone. Any kind of digital content can be OA, from texts and data to software, audio, video, and multi-media. While most of these are related to text only, a growing number are integrating text with images, data, and executable code. OA can also apply to non-scholarly content, like music, movies, and novels.
A publication is considered in Open access if:
UNESCO Open Access Publications
Below are select publishers which provide Open Access (OA) journals:
Springer Open (springeropen.com)
OA.mg (oa.mg)
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals (doaj.org)
MDPI (www.mdpi.com)
Wiley (https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-research/open-access/index.html)
Taylor & Francis (https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/openjournals)
Elsevier (https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/open-access-journals)
ScienceDirect (https://www.sciencedirect.com/browse/journals-and-books?accessType=openAccess)
Sage Journals (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sgo)
The following journals are open access or contain open access articles:
Accounting Organizations and Society
Contemporary Accounting Research
Journal of Accounting and Economics
Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance
Journal of Accounting Research
The following journals are open access or contain open access articles:
International Small Business Journal
Journal of International Business Studies
Journal of Small Business Management (pre-2020)
Journal of Small Business Management ( 2020 - present)
The following journals are open access or contain open access articles:
Journal of Development Economics
Journal of International Economics
European Journal of Political Economy
Quarterly Journal of Economics
The following journals are open access or contain open access articles:
Global Journal of Entrepreneurship
International Journal of Entrepreneurship
Journal of Business Venturing Insights
Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation
The Journal of Entrepreneurship
The following journals are open access or contain open access articles:
International Journal of Financial Studies
The following journals are open access or contain open access articles:
European Journal of Management
Journal of International Management
Journal of Management & Organization
Journal of Management Research and Analysis
Green Open Access
The following journals are open access or contain open access articles:
International Journal of Research in Marketing
Journal of Marketing Analytics
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