How A Bloodborne Pathogens Certification Can Help Your Career
If you work as a nurse, physician, dentist, lab assistant, tattoo artist, or in suchlike professions, you’re likely to encounter...
4 Reasons to Pursue a Career in IT
From outdated systems to unstable connections, there are many challenges to running a company today. These signs are ways of...
The Importance of Student Leadership in Education
Contrary to what is often perceived as the leadership concept where being able to lead is the primary aspect, the educational...
The Onslaught of Questionable Open-Access Journals Persists Unabated
On April, 8, I was quoted in a New York Times article about questionable open-access publishers and questionable conferences. Since that day I’ve...
How to Be a Successful Online Learner: 10 Tips & Strategies To Follow
Students roll out from bed and start attending classes. The facility was not available during the time of the classroom-based...
OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings”
By Jeffrey Beall and Richard Levine
Previous blog posts have described and documented examples of OMICS Group’s unethical practices, including sending personal invitations...
Recognizing a Pattern of Problems in “Pattern Recognition in Physics”
Copernicus Publications is an open-access publisher based in Göttingen, Germany. It is not on my list of predatory publishers. However, I do have...
The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing Empire Built on Junk Science
Another day, another report of a junk science article published by China-based publisher Scientific Research Publishing, or SCIRP. This publisher specializes...
Open-Access Articles for Sale as Expensive Books on Amazon
A publisher called Applied Research Press has set up shop using Amazon.co.uk and is selling openly-licensed scholarly articles as monographs. The Creative...
API Metrics for Different Teams to Monitor in a Company
API monitoring is the practice of monitoring Applications Programming Interfaces to check if they meet functionality, availability, security, and performance...
