[Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list. --Peter Suber.]
Colleagues,
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I am the author of Scholarly Open Access http://scholarlyoa.com/, a blog
that includes lists of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable
independent journals.
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I'm writing to
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,
Kudos to Jeffrey Beall, and regrets for the negative spam you have endured.
Jeffrey, even though it may create some extra traffic for everyone on this
listserv, may I suggest that you forward at least examples of the offending
spam attacks, so that we are all well informed and can perhaps help
The research community needs to unite to expose, name and shame these
increasingly criminal practices by predatory publishers bent on making a
fast buck by abusing the research community's legitimate desire for open
access (OA) (as well as exploiting some researchers' temptation to get
accepted
The purpose of this communication is to inform about recent changes and
future plans for the development of the Directory of Open Access Journals
(DOAJ).
As communicated here (www.is4oa.org/News.html) Lund University has
facilitated a handover of the responsibility for operating and developing
Paul,
Here are a few examples:
* http://publishopenaccess.blogspot.com/
* http://antiviralsantiretrovirals.edublogs.org/2012/12/18/omics-blog/
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Stevan Harnad writes
The research community needs to unite to expose, name and shame these
increasingly criminal practices by predatory publishers
I wonder if there is a criterion for when a publisher is predatory.
bent on making a fast buck by abusing the research community's
On 2012-12-18, at 8:26 PM, Roddy Macleod macleod.ro...@gmail.com wrote:
*Editors with publishing and library experience, available to do the
background work, and backed up with scholarly reviewers - sounds OK to me.
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