Recently, CTV News and Toronto Star broke the news about two of Canada’s well known publishing houses for medical journals (Pulsus Group and Andrew John Publishing) have been acquired by OMICS International, a predatory publisher based out of India. This publisher is under investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission which has charged OMICS of making false claims and deceiving academics and researchers about the nature of its publications and hiding publication fees ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars.

To raise awareness about predatory publishers, my colleague, Eduardo Franco and I co-authored this blog post for Huffington Post Canada: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/dr-madhukar-pai/preda...

In our blog post, we provide tips on how to spot invitations from predatory OA journals. I hope fellow academics will add their experiences and suggestions.