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New Tool In Town: Identifying The Good, The Bad, And The Predatory Oa Journal, Nataly Blas
New Tool In Town: Identifying The Good, The Bad, And The Predatory Oa Journal, Nataly Blas
Nataly Blas
As publishing models continue to change and evolve, libraries have remained constant in their
pursuit of information access. After nearly three decades, academic institutions are still
adapting to open access publishing. At a medium-size, private institution, a library working
group was formed in order to alleviate rising faculty concerns on predatory OA journals. In
Spring 2015, three librarians formed the Credible Journal Criteria Working Group (CJCWG) in
response to faculty inquiries on open access (OA) publishing, particularly, how to evaluate OA
journals for quality and credibility. This new project was an exciting opportunity to extend the
OA conversations at the …