This was sent around this morning from a library listserv: Librarian removes controversial list of "predatory" journals and publishers, reportedly in response to "threats and politics." https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/18/librarians-list-predatory-jou... Someone mentioned that the criteria has been included in Cabell's https://www.cabells.com/about-us Joy McNally Brandow Research Support Coordinator Union of Concerned Scientists | Cambridge MA T: +1 617 301-8048 | E: jmcnally@ucsusa.org -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of David Nemer Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 2:45 PM To: Kalpana Shankar Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Thanks Kalpana! I tried to go to Beall's list and to my surprise, it is no longer available for consultation. I even found a recent blog post questioning its disappearance. https://debunkingdenialism.com/2017/01/16/what-happened-to-jeffrey-bealls-li... It is all very odd. Does anyone have any leads on this? best, -- *David Nemer, PhD* Assistant Professor School of Information Science University of Kentucky http://dnemer.com <http://www.dnemer.com/> Check out "Favela Digital: The other side of technology" - http://favela-digital.com On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Kalpana Shankar <kalpana.shankar@ucd.ie> wrote:
I would second the recommendation to look at Jeffrey Beall's list (he is an academic librarian and was threatened with a law suit in 2013 to the tune of 1 billion US dollars by OMICS, one of the firms he targeted which is predatory publishing outfit in India; the relevant legal statute in India was struck down in 2015):
List of predatory publishers: https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
Best.
Kalpana
On 29 December 2016 at 14:03, José María Mateos <chema@rinzewind.org> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 08:50:56AM -0500, Zach McDowell wrote:
a great place to start, but it might be interesting if there was a repository of OA shaming somewhere (although something tells me someone has this already) to help align our goals. Its unfortunate about Andrew's
Jeffrey Beall [1] has been doing this for some time. Incidentally, he is quoted in a New York Times article today about "fake academia" (everything seems to be fake these days) [2].
Cheers,
Chema.
[1] <https://scholarlyoa.com> [2] <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looki ng-much-like-the-real-thing.html>
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