Informationskompetenz gegen Fake Science

Wie steht es, was sagen die Beteiligten und welche Taktik ist nun gefordert?

Abstract

Three years after a very critical media coverage of predatory publishing (“science scandal”), the article analyses the activities of German libraries in terms of how they provide information about fake science and how they support scientists. This happens mainly in specific events which primarily reach those target groups that are already at least rudimentarily sensitized. The results of a survey among teaching librarians are presented, as to how they assess their skills in detecting fake science and how they see their role and the tasks of libraries in combating fake science. The article discusses best practice examples for promoting critical information literacy in libraries based on the information literacy framework, which goes far beyond teaching research skills.