What Those Responsible for Open Infrastructure in Scholarly Communication Can Do about Possibly Predatory Practices

This chapter has been invited to appear in Predatory Practices in Scholarly Communication and Publishing: Causes, Forms, Implications, and Solutions, published by Routledge.

It presents a three-phase analysis of 521 journals that use the open source publishing platform Open Journal Systems (OJS) while appearing on Beall’s list of predatory publishers and journals and/or in Cabells Predatory Reports. The study revealed a misanalysis as “predatory”. PKP’s new technical strategy aims to verify and communicate standards adherence to the public. Work has begun on systems involving trade organizations, such ORCiD and Crossref, for authenticating journal practices. The goal is to provide a publicly accessible industry standard for more reliably assessing journal quality.