My reaction: thank you, Jeffrey Beall! - both for the important service of tracking those predatory open access publishers, and for exposing this attempt to discredit you. Bravo!
Further applause on IJPE: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-huge-thank-you-to-jeffrey-beall.html best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 18-Dec-12, at 9:48 AM, Peter Suber wrote: > [Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list. --Peter > Suber.] > > > Colleagues, > > > > I am the author of Scholarly Open Access, a blog that includes lists > of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent > journals. > > > > I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing, > organized attempt to discredit me and my blog. > > > > Specifically, I've been a victim of email spoofing, in which someone > is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are not. > > > > One of the spoofed emails is an offer to "reevaluate" a publisher's > presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to > make it look like I am extorting money from publishers. > > > > Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the > spoofed email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An > example is here. > > > > Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my > work on various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names > of people prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was > in the comments section of my October Nature piece. The publisher > has removed these spurious statements and closed further comments. > > > > I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory > publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list > are true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a > criminal way. > > > > I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried > to learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I > have tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not > engaged in any of the activities that they are trying to frame me > with. > > > > Thanks for your understanding. > > > > Jeffrey > > > > Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor > > Scholarly Initiatives Librarian > Auraria Library > University of Colorado Denver > 1100 Lawrence St. > Denver, Colo. 80204 USA > (303) 556-5936 > jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu > > > > <image001.jpg> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
