id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16614 Olivarez, Joseph D.; Bales, Stephen; Sare, Laura; vanDuinkerken, Wyoma Format Aside: Applying Beall's Criteria to Assess the Predatory Nature of both OA and Non-OA Library and Information Science Journals 2018-01-03 16 .pdf application/pdf 7258 280 35 Introduction While the open access (OA) movement is growing throughout academia and has gained traction in some disciplines, there is still skepticism on the part of research- ers who question the quality of OA publishing and may associate OA journals with “predatory” journals. Many print journals have been charging authors page charges to offset the cost of publishing.7 Shen and Björk contended that basic journal practices and elements of article publication, including peer review, have not changed appreciably.8 Because some OA journals charge a fee, despite having no print costs to cover, the practice of OA journals charging fees has opened up debate about questions of qual- ity, and whether authors are simply paying to have their work published (rather than publishing quality work). cache/crl-16614.pdf txt/crl-16614.txt