Public presentation

Below you can find information about conferences and other events where we presented our initiative. Would you like us to present the Stop Predatory Practices initiative at your event? Or would you like to provide a talk or training on predatory practices for librarians, researchers or PhD candidates? Do not hesitate to contact us.

Events in 2023


Information Literacy conference (LILAC 2023), Cambridge

Tereza represented our initiative at the LILAC conference in Cambridge in April 2023. To learn more, read this blog article (in Czech only).

Events in 2022

The Triennial Conference of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Worldwide Meeting of the Young Academies

In early November 2022, we had the opportunity to present at The Triennial Conference of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Worldwide Meeting of the Young Academies. Thanks to IAP, we were honoured to be part of the presentation Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences: The vital role of senior and young academies. Together with T. Elliott et al. we presented not only the IAP report Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences but also country delegates presented their smaller initiatives, such as ours.

Recording from the session is available on Youtube (see on the left)

You can read more about the conference here.


The 8th e-Learning Excellence Awards at ECEL 2022, Brighton

In October 2022 Tereza represented our initiative at The 8th e-Learning Excellence Awards at European Conference on e-Learning 2022, Brighton. It was great to see so many excellent e-learning projects. The individual e-learning projects are described in the book The 8th e-Learning Excellence Awards 2022: An Anthology of Case Histories. Read the full text of our Case Study: Stop Predatory Practices - Teaching module.

The 42nd International Association of University Libraries (IATUL) Annual Conference 2022 in Miami 

In July 2022, Kristýna P. represented our initiative at The 42nd International Association of University Libraries (IATUL) Annual Conference 2022 in Miami. Kristýna P. presented a paper entitled "Tools against predators? Transparency, education, and the courage to speak up". Full text is available here.

Presentation at European Academies´ Science Advisory Coucnil

On June 10th 2022, Tereza had the opportunity to present the results of our project at the EASAC Council Meeting in Liblice Castle.

Thanks to the EASAC Council for the invitation!


Presentation at the seminar for CAS libraries

On May 24th 2022, Tereza presented our initiative at the Seminar for Libraries and Scientific Information Centres of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Seminář pro knihovny a SVI ústavů AV ČR 2022). We presented information about the background of our initiative, about the teaching module, and also about how librarians from all over the Czech Republic can use this module.

Thanks to the organizers for the invitation!

Presentation at National Seminar on Information Education (NASIV)

On May 24th 2022, Tereza participated in the X. National Seminar of Information Education (Národní Seminář Informačního Vzdělávání, NASIV) at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. At the lecture she presented information about the background of our initiative, about the teaching module and also about how librarians from all over the Czech Republic can use this module. We also talked about the link between our project and high school students as part of the "Otevřená věda" internship.

Thanks to the NASIV organizers for the invitation!

Thanks to the organizers for the invitation!