Dear friends, We have seen enough propaganda of ‘borrowed ideas’ from the West that are being brought to our notice in this forum by some people. We are certainly aware of what’s happening in our country and who is responsible for this predatory journals menace The UGC had already prepared the CARE list (with some controversies) but never dared to identify the (LIS) people who publish these predatory journals and the people who sit on their editorial boards. Is it that difficult? It is shameful to say that India is a major hub of predatory publishing without really taking action on such people and agencies. There is no need for us to be told by some foreign person or agency to take steps to curb the menace. We already have the tools and methods to identify predatory journals. Can’t UGC or ILA prepare a list of such journals in LIS in India? Dr M Koteswara Rao Former Librarian University of Hyderabad

On 18-Mar-2022, at 9:29 AM, Vasumathi Sriganesh wrote:

Thank you Sir for this one. It appears to be extremely useful. Will go through it and share it

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On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 9:12 PM Subbiah Arunachalam < subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com> wrote:

Friends,

The Inter Academy Partnership has just released a report on Combating Predatory academic journals and conferences. Please see

https://www.interacademies.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/1.%20Full%20repor...

This report should be of interest to researchers and librarians everywhere, and especially India, as India is often referred to as the home for a large number of such journals and the UGC had to bring out a white list of journals.

Best wishes.

Subbiah Arunachalam http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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