How To Avoid Predatory Publishers and Conferences

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• Talk to your supervisor and colleagues
• Contact the libraries at scom@mcmaster.ca or hslib@mcmaster.ca 

• Before you submit: Think. Check. Submit 
• How to Assess a Journal: A.K.A. How not to publish in an undesirable journal (Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
• SJR: Scimago Journal & Country Rank
• Google Scholar Metrics (Top journals indexed in Google Scholar)
• Journal Quality List (compiled and edited by Prof. Anne-Wil Harzing)

• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Journal Citation Reports (Database access via the Library)

Think. Check. Submit helps researchers identify trusted journals for their research.

Identifying predatory publishers - a helpful video from the University of Manitoba (2018)