02275nam a22002417a 4500 9444 OCLRC 20260730103743.0 210504t xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d OCLRC Masten, Yondell Due diligence in the open-access explosion era: choosing a reputable journal for publication Yondell Masten 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnx206 Faculty are required to publish. Na�ve and �in-a-hurry-to-publish� authors seek to publish in journals where manuscripts are rapidly accepted. Others may innocently submit to one of an increasing number of questionable/predatory journals, where predatory is defined as practices of publishing journals for exploitation of author-pays, open-access publication model by charging authors publication fees for publisher profit without provision of expected services (expert peer review, editing, archiving, and indexing published manuscripts) and promising almost instant publication. Authors may intentionally submit manuscripts to predatory journals for rapid publication without concern for journal quality. A brief summary of the open access �movement,� suggestions for selecting reputable open access journals, and suggestion for avoiding predatory publishers/journals are described. The purpose is to alert junior and seasoned faculty about predatory publishers included among available open access journal listings. Brief review of open access publication, predatory/questionable journal characteristics, suggestions for selecting reputable open access journals and avoiding predatory publishers/journals are described. Time is required for intentionally performing due diligence in open access journal selection, based on publisher/journal quality, prior to manuscript submission or authors must be able to successfully withdraw manuscripts when submission to a questionable or predatory journal is discovered. open access, predatory journals, predatory publishers, characteristics of ethical and unethical publishing practices, due dilegence activities for selecting reputable journals Ashcraft, Alyce ELEC 9444 9444 0 0 0 0 LRC LRC 2026-07-30 0 2026-07-30 10:37:44 2026-07-30 ELEC