Dear Esteemed Academic, we’re reaching out to you as an eminent scholar in your field! This week we talk with Dr. John Chenault, PhD, MA, MSLS who is a former medical librarian and currently Associate Professor & Director of Anti-Racism Initiatives in Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss predatory publishing, which is an exploitative practice that charges authors to publish scholarly journal articles without providing important publishing services like peer review. Dr. Chenault suggests that listeners can work with librarians to identify such exploitative journals before publishing, and he describes resources that faculty can use to help identify predatory publishers. After listening to this episode, Dr. Chenault calls for listeners to be mindful of this industry and its negative impact to our profession. Learn more about predatory publishing with Retraction Watch, the Predatory Publishing blog, and see if your university has access to Cabell’s International. Also check out John’s previous Faculty Feed episodes on anti-racism in medical education and the crisis in biomedical publishing.
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