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Comment on “Open is not forever: A study of vanished open access journals”

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  • Matan Shelomi

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This letter comments on a recent article by Laakso et al. (10.1002/asi.24460), in which the disappearance of 176 open access journals from the Internet is noted. One reason these journals may have vanished is that they were predatory journals: a possibility the original paper did not consider. The delisting of predators from the Directory of Open Access Journals in 2014 and the abundance of predatory journals and awareness thereof in North America parsimoniously explain the temporal and geographic patterns Laakso et al. observed.

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  • Matan Shelomi, 2021. "Comment on “Open is not forever: A study of vanished open access journals”," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 72(9), pages 1113-1114, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jinfst:v:72:y:2021:i:9:p:1113-1114
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.24543
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