for disseminating academic productions in which the journal guarantees free, irrevocable, unrestrictive access to the article from the date of its online publication. Reuse is regulated by Creative Commons (CC) licenses (http://creativecommons.org/about), the least restrictive among those adopted by publishers with open policies. Unfortunately, some traditional subscription journals created an ...

the grape erineum mite (gem), colomerus vitis (pagenstecher) (acari: eriophyidae) is considered to be one of the most important pests, that sometimes causes irreversible damages to grapevine cultivars in western parts of iran. studies were carried out in order to find natural enemies associated with gem, during 2011-2013. results indicated that natural enemies included two species of predatory ...

The effect of the destruction of locus coeruleus noradrenergic (LC NA) projection on spontaneous predatory attack, predatory competition and food intake was studied in cats. Selective noradrenergic neurotoxin DSP-4 injected into LC caused 71% decrease of noradrenaline content in amygdala and 41% decrease in hypothalamus. Predatory behaviour, predatory competition as well as food intake remained...

Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the phenomenon known as ”predatory lending.” In a forthcoming paper, we argue that predatory lending emerged when market incentives that historically led lenders to engage in credit rationing gave way to a market where lenders could easily exploit unsophisticated borrowers. Our specific focus is on the home loan market, i.e., closed...

How many invitations did you receive last week to publish your latest research data in a journal with a name very similar to those of our classic scientific journals? The reason for this generosity must be the high chance of cheating researchers so that they pay article processing charges. These journals have been denominated 'predatory journals' and have interested a Canadian librarian, Charle...

Open Access, no copyright Since 2005, Acta Orthopaedica has been a platinum Open Access journal. This means that all articles from 1930 until now are immediately free for everyone to read and download. Acta has no copyright on articles, which are all published under a Creative Commons Licence that permits all non-commercial use of them. Platinum Open Access means that the authors pay nothing fo...

You have probably received spam e-mail solicitations from previously unknownpublishers inviting you to submit amanuscript to one of their journals, join an editorial board, or, perhaps, complete an ad hoc peer review of a scholarly manuscript. In fact, if you are like most researchers in the biomedical sciences, you have probably received such e-mails on a daily basis. Most of these spam e-mail...

Predatory publishers—those who do not adhere to rigorous standards of academic practice such as peer review—are increasingly infiltrating biomedical databases, the detriment wider scientific community. These publishers frequently send unsolicited ‘spam’ emails generate submission their journals, with early career researchers (ECR) particularly susceptible these practices because pressures secur...