I can't help but supporting Bianca's feelings on this. Why does Mr Beall insist on highlighting the link OA-APC? OA did not cause or invent APC.
He seems eager to protect us from those predatory (oa-only) journals but takes no notice of the content hickjacking and agenda control from non-oa journals that affect the lifes of researchers (and their communities) at the perifery in much worse manners. I invite Mr Tuffani to have an inward look at that. On 28 March 2015 at 16:10, Dana Roth <dzr...@library.caltech.edu> wrote: > It is also not for me to say on behalf of Mr. Beall, but to note that > Beall's list is solely a listing of "Potential, possible, or probable > predatory scholarly open-access publishers". > > http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ > > > > Dana L. Roth > Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32 > 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 > 626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540 > dzr...@library.caltech.edu > http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm > ________________________________________ > From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] on behalf of > Mauricio Tuffani [mauri...@tuffani.net] > Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 11:26 AM > To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) > Subject: [GOAL] Re: Still on the scientific open access journals in Brazil > - response to Mister Jeffrey Beall > > > [Message sent again with the same text, but in appropriate format and > with shorter links. Please disregard the previous e-mail. Sorry for > the unformatting.] > > Dear GOAL members, > > Let me please introduce myself. I am the journalist Mauricio Tuffani, > quoted by Mr. Jeffrey Beall and Mrs. Bianca Amaro. I am a science > writer and collaborator of "Folha de S. Paulo" > (http://www.folha.com.br), the largest Brazilian daily newspaper. I > have a blog hosted by this newspaper > (http://folha.com/mauriciotuffani). > > It is not for me to say on behalf of Mr. Beall, but I must clarify > misconceptions related to my posts and articles. > > I am not a researcher, as correctly said Mrs. Amaro, and she is not > the first person to highlight this fact. The same thing was said by > the board of directors of the National Institute for Space Research > (INPE), which in 1989 I accused of defrauding the Amazon deforestation > estimates. In the following year, the institute recognized its "small > error" of about 50% and fired the coordinator of that work. > > And so it has been all these years. > > I would like to clarify that I have admiration for the Open Access . > However, I am a journalist, and it is my duty to point out distortions > that are of public interest. > > And there have been many distortions in the Brazilian academic > production in recent years. While the number of published articles > nearly quadrupled since 2000 (http://rs.gs/ldB), their relative impact > to the world stagnated in the same period (http://rs.gs/jC2). > > Here in Brazil is very common to opt for quantitative growth believing > that later will be possible to increase the quality. Because of this > frequent illusion the country has mountains of waste in its economy, > education, culture and other fields such as science. > > In Brazilian science and graduate education this quantitative growth > without attention to quality involves several activities. Academic > publishing is one of them, and within there is Open Access. > > The common point of all my posts indicated by Mr. Beall is the fact > that poor quality journals have been accepted in the Qualis database, > of CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education > Personnel), of the Ministry of Education. > > Unlike what said Mrs. Bianca Amaro, I do not criticize "the use of > this database for evaluation of Brazilian science in graduate > programs." I just reported that the Qualis database accepts predatory > journals (http://rs.gs/f8c). > > And I have reported this in all my posts highlighting clarifications as > follows: > > "Both in the online open access, with fees paid by authors, as in the > traditional model maintained by annual subscriptions or fees per > article download from the Internet, the reputable journals take months > or even over a year to review and accept articles, or rejected them. > Accused of prioritizing minimizing costs and maximizing profits, the > "predatory publishers" not only reduce to a few weeks the acceptance > of articles, but are less selective and rigorous in this process." > > Mr. Jeffrey Beall's message header "Open Access in Brazil" was in > fact too generic, but made no mistake. I have often received > information that good Brazilian OA journals —which really want to > build the golden road quoted by Mrs. Amaro— are losing the preference > of researchers to predatory journals. > > I do not have metrics to show this preference for predatory journals, > but I could show that more than 200 of them were accepted by Qualis, > bringing consequences that come to be ridiculous (http://rs.gs/L9y) or > anecdotal (http://rs.gs/z3b). > > Perhaps M r s. Amaro does not know this situation —and I do not know > if she ought to know it— but those who should know it act like they > did not know: CAPES, CNP q (National Council for Scientific and > Technological Development), state funding agencies and universities. > > I am very glad that this issue has been brought to this discussion > group. Sometimes problems of Brazilian science have been resolved " > with a little help from" its friends outside Brazil. It happened, for > example, with the fraudulent estimate of Amazon deforestation to which > I referred at the beginning of this message. > > If the growing garbage from predatory journals in Brazil continue to > be ignored, it will become much larger than the bucolic "golden road > in the country" glorified by Mrs. Amaro. > > With my due respect for her opinion, I think her overreaction to the > generic header of Mr. Beall's message is actually a disregard of a > serious threat to the Open Access in Brazil. This threat is the > inclusion of predatory journals in Qualis supported by the code of > silence around this issue in the Brazilian academia. > > ( I know that I stretched too much what I had to say, but I can not > resist sharing the following. I received right now a message sent by a > full professor. He criticizes me for the inclusion of a journal on my > list of "predatory Qualis ". And this journal says on its website: "21 > day rapid review process with international peer-review > standards".[http://rs.gs/wcS]) > > Thank you for your attention. > > *********************************** > Maurício Tuffani > Journalist, science writer > São Paulo, SP, Brazil > Mobile: +55 11 99164-8443 > Phone: +55 11 2366-9949 > http://folha.com/mauriciotuffani > mauri...@tuffani.net > ********************************** > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Jacinto Dávila http://webdelprofesor.ula.ve/ingenieria/jacinto
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