Along with the emergence of open access publishing, printing barriers have decreased and the assembly and dissemination of information requires little more than Internet access.
Unfortunately, this has led to a proliferation of open access publishers with little or no subject expertise and of questionable repute.
Scholars and researchers may receive email solicitations for fee-based paper submissions to journals that make false or misleading claims about the stringency of their peer-review process, members of their editorial board, or indexing status.
This guide was created using many resources, many of them are linked throughout the guide. This guide was also built using information from Cornell University Library guide on Open Access Publishing, published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.