Predatory journals and conferences: SigmaCast, Episode 4

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<p><font color="red"><em>This item is part of a Sigma CNE course available to Sigma members only. <strong>The material is freely available in the Sigma Repository and anyone may access the files attached to this record and the audio streams linked below.</strong></em></font> </p> <p><font color="red"><em>For information on accessing the Sigma CNE course (separate from the Sigma Repository), please click here:<a href="https://www.sigmarepository.org/sigma-elearning-platform/" target="_blank"> https://www.sigmarepository.org/sigma-elearning-platform/.</a></em></font> </p> <p><font color="red"><em>Upon entering the Sigma eLearning Platform, search for the keyword "Podcast".</font></em></p><p>This episode we will be discussing doctoral education in nursing. The discussion will center around the need for doctoral education and discuss several types of terminal degrees often seen in nursing. </p><p>​This episode we will be discussing how to avoid publishing in predatory journals and at predatory conferences. Avoiding predatory journals is relatively easy yet, as evidenced by the predatory journal websites, academics do publish in them. Avoiding predatory conferences is also easy, but we continue to hear about academics who respond to their ingratiating invitations.</p> <br> <p>Since the demise of Beall’s list, there is no single and easily accessible repository of information on predatory publishers and predatory conferences. Beyond, but possibly related to, the predatory publishing ‘industry’ is the creation of false websites to lure people into submitting and paying, in good faith, to have manuscripts processed, never to see their manuscript published. Unwary academics also need to know how to detect and avoid these.</p> ​<br> <p?Strategies are discussed to provide academics and researchers with knowledge and online resources and articles aimed at helping them avoid predatory publishers and conferences</p> <br> <p>Episode Details</p> <br> <p>Host: Matthew S. Howard, DNP, RN, CEN, CPEN, CPN, Director of Scholarship Resources at Sigma.</p> <br> <p>Files attached to this record in the following order listed below:</p> <ol> <li>Guest Speakers - Roger Watson, PhD, BSc, RN, FRCN, FEANS, FFNMRCSI, FAAN: Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom; Mark Hayter, PhD, RN, MMedSci, BA (Hons) CertEd, FAAN: University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom. Length: 31 minutes. Filename: Predatory_Journals_and_Conferences.