Predatory Journals and publishers charge fees to authors to publish their articles without providing standard editorial and publishing services that are practiced by legitimate scholarly journals.
Go to Warning Signs of Predatory Journals to identify and avoid predatory journals.
Also, avoid Predatory Conferences that utilize the same practices as predatory publishers.
Subscription Journals:
Traditional publishing model that requires users to pay a fee to access journal content.
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Open Access Journals:
Open Access publishing eliminates subscription fees to make content available to all.
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Hybrid Journals:
Hybrid Journals follow a mixed publishing model, charging subscriptions to access most of the content but also making some articles freely accessible to users.
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