False gold: Safely navigating open access publishing to avoid predatory publishers and journals

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 809-817

  McCann, Terence V ^a   Polacsek, Meg ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

midwifery; nursing; open access; predatory journals; predatory publishers; publication guidelines

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MIDWIFE; NURSING RESEARCH; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS;

GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MIDWIFERY; NURSING RESEARCH; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PLAGIARISM; PUBLISHING;

EID: 85034254826     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jan.13483     Document Type: Article

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