Ridiculous OA Journal Launches with Ridiculous Title
The world’s newest open-access journal is the Integrated Journal of British (IJBRITISH). If the journal’s name strikes you as strange, that’s because...
Prep for Gamsat Section 3
Before you begin studying for the GAMSAT Section 3 exam, you must understand what this section will entail. This section...
Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea
Many are excited about innovative measures that purport to quantify scholarly impact at a more granular level. Called article-level metrics or...
Legal Research Tips for Law Students
Law students know that their briefs and memos need to be backed up by relevant research in order to carry...
Another Predatory Publisher Accepts a Computer-Generated Paper
The predatory journal named Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology has accepted a bogus, computer-generated paper entitled “Robots No Longer Considered...
Questionable OA Publisher Launches with a Clever Website and 52 New Journals
A recent addition to my list is the American Research Institute for Policy Development (ARIPD), which, unlike most new OA publishers, has...
Can a Title of an Essay Be a Question? An Expert Answer
Your essay title is a crucial part of your academic writing. It could either improve or degrade the quality of...
Open-Access Physics Journal Accommodates Authors Blacklisted from arXiv
Progress in Physics is an open-access journal that publishes articles unsuitable for mainstream physics journals. Among other roles, it provides desperate...
9 Signs A Career As A School Counselor Might Be Right For You
So, you’re considering a career as a school counselor. If this is the case, you need to ask yourself, is...
Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition)
In August 2012, I published the first edition of my Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers. I received many helpful comments...
