Comment on “Open is not forever: A study of vanished open access journals”
Journal
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Date Issued
2021
Author(s)
Abstract
This letter comments on a recent article by Laakso et al. (10.1002/asi.24460), in which the disappearance of 176 open access journals from the Internet is noted. One reason these journals may have vanished is that they were predatory journals: a possibility the original paper did not consider. The delisting of predators from the Directory of Open Access Journals in 2014 and the abundance of predatory journals and awareness thereof in North America parsimoniously explain the temporal and geographic patterns Laakso et al. observed. ? 2021 Association for Information Science and Technology
Subjects
Geographic pattern; Open access journals; Open access; awareness; directory; Internet; letter; North America; predator
Type
letter