Scholarly Open Access
Critical Analysis of Jeffrey Beall's Blog - Open Access Publishing
Predatory Blogger Academic terrorist
Jeffrey Beall
Beall doubles down..
Predatory blog shutdown
Jeffrey Beall will be criminally
prosecuted in USA for fraud, extortion, bribery and money laundering
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shutdown. No information where about predatory Blogger Beall Predatory blogger Beall created own his criterions and directed alot of false claims, causing tremendous injury, personal and professional, to countless numbers of individuals, publishers and organizations. He should be made to release the full content of every blog post he ever published, because that information was in the public domain. So, by suddenly removing all information, he has not only acted cowardly, but irresponsibly. |
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Highlights of Beall's
academic crimes
Academic
Exchange Quarterly
Few
years ago Academic Exchange Quarterly has rejected Beall’s article.
In return, Beall has labeled this journal “Potential, possible, or
probable predatory scholarly open-access journal”
http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/
Beall: Predatory Blogger and academic terrorist
Predatory Blogger Beall Exposed
Beall
is only mentioned in journals with a conflict of interest because of his
views against open access (conventional journal's main competitors). Beall
does not meet any of the other qualities specifically:
1. The person's research has made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources
Many
citations are not in the peer reviewed literature and many are negative.
2.
The
person has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a
national or international level.
NO,
Not at all
3.
The
person is or has been an elected member of a highly selective and
prestigious scholarly society or association (e.g., a National
Academy of Sciences or the Royal
Society) or a fellow of
a major scholarly society for which that is a highly selective honor (e.g.,
the IEEE).
NO, Not at all
4.
The
person's academic work has made a significant impact in the area of higher
education, affecting a substantial number of academic
institutions.
NO, Not at all
5.
The
person holds or has held a named
chair appointment or distinguished
professor appointment at a major institution of higher education
and research (or an equivalent position in countries where named chairs are
uncommon).
NO, Not at all
6.
The
person has held a highest-level elected or appointed academic post at a
major academic institution or major academic society.
NO,
Not at all
7.
The
person has made substantial impact outside academia in their academic
capacity.
NO,
Not at all
8.
The
person is or has been the head or chief editor of a major, well-established
academic journal in their subject area.
NO - only a slanderous bogus Blog
Therefore we
have added Jeffrey Beall to our list as a potential , possible predatory
blogger and Beall's list must be ignored.
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Exposed: "Randykitty" is a Jeffrey Beall
I
came by Jeffrey Beall's blog while searching for journals. Jeffrey
Beall himself is not qualified as a judge on
open access journals.
Most
importantly, I have noticed that Jeffrey also uses Wikipedia to promote
his 'agenda.' He goes by the username "Randykitty".(I have many
reasons to believe why Randykitty is Jeffrey Beall. The user mainly
edits open access journals, monitors his own entry, and cites Beall's
blog,). It gives false impression to many that he is the 'holy'
judge of open access journals.
I
think many should know about this. Beall is getting attention much more
than he should have.
Wikipedia is being manipulated to promote Beall and his bogus blog. People need to know. Read more
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Backlash
over journals blacklisting Researchers on social media are split over the
decision of predatory librarian Jeffrey Beall to add the Frontiers journals
to his ‘blacklist’ of “questionable publishers”.
Beall, at the University of Colorado Denver, announced the move in a tweet, saying that it followed “wide disapproval from scientists”. Read more
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Beall acting as a mouthpiece
We are grateful to you for bringing such a serious and funny matter to our notice by your blog. While going through the matter deeply, we have observed that it is a framework created by profit making commercial organizations belonging to corporate world with intention to discourage Open Access Journals and Mr. J. Beall, who is acting as a mouthpiece of group. Read more
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Motion
to repudiate Beall's attack on
Open access journals
World
stand against Beall's conspiracy and predatory practices against Open access
Journals
Jeffrey
Beall, an American librarian who gained notoriety publishing a list of open
access publishers and journals considered as “predatory” by him, posted
in his blog an unbelievably mistaken and prejudiced article, beginning with
its title, “Is SciELO a Publication Favela?”1
Based on an ethnocentric and purely commercial point of view, Mr. Beall supposes that, since the whole ensemble of its publications are not indexed by Thomson Reuter’s bibliographic database, and because of the discontinuation of a proposal by a Brazilian government agency to hire a commercial publisher to disseminate some of the nation’s periodicals, SciELO’s publications would be “hidden from the world” (sic). Read more
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Jeffrey
Beall: A Predatory blogger and his blacklist
There are two main
problems with this list.
1.
The list is based on the
opinions and judgements of a single person and, therefore, subject to the
errors of judgement, prejudices and conflicts of interest inherent in such
an approach;
2. The list only includes open access journals, giving the impression that only this model of publication is subject to predatory and questionable practices. Read more
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Beall's goes bananas, then predatory practice exposed
Open access is not looking very ephemeral at the moment. The “industry” seems to be trying to find ways to accommodate it so they don’t go out of business. Open access advocates are not necessarily against the “industry,” just the broken subscription/paywall model they use. Indeed, traditional publishers like Elsevier and Wiley are profiting handsomely from hybrid open access, and starting OA journals or converting existing ones to open access. Read more
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Another laugher: Beall academic Joker and Colorado Clown
Beall must be unaware of his own library’s collections budget, or the 30-40% annual profit made by Elsevier, Wiley, Informa, etc. If he is concerned about merit (and especially predatory publishing), he ought to be advocating for some form of open peer review.
Many OA advocates have identified the same problem with APCs, especially for authors from the developing world. But many of these journals have waivers, most OA journals don’t have charges, and new models are being developed that subsidize journals without charge to either author or reader. It’s not accurate to portray fee-based publishing as the only open access model. Read more
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Beall’s critiques of open access are not factual
I recently became a member of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and today was dismayed to see Jeffrey Beall’s article What the Open-Access Movement Doesn’t Want You to Know in the latest issue of its journal, Academe. (I joined because as a member of Virginia Tech’s Faculty Senate, AAUP has been helpful in advising us on increasing the role of Faculty Senate in university governance.)
Jeffrey Beall
has unfairly blamed these problems on open access as a whole. It
became apparent just how off the rails Beall had gone when he published The
Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access in
the journal TripleC (in
the non-peer reviewed section; also see Michael Eisen’s response, Beall’s
Litter). If you enjoy right-wing nuttiness (yes, George Soros is
involved) you really should read it. Read more
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Posted on July 15, 2015
Beall's
black listing;
unqualified service does not help
researchers
Crawford criticizes Beall for not contextualizing predatory or low-quality publishing as a phenomenon that predates OA and is not exclusive to OA journals. He also points out that Beall favors toll-access publishers, specifically Elsevier, praising its “consistent high quality.” However, a simple Google search for “fake Elsevier journals” reveals Beall’s position as tenuous. Furthermore, Beall conflates OA journals with “author pays” journals, and reveals his skepticism, if not hostility, about OA. Politics aside, Beall’s laser-like focus on predatory publishers may prevent him from having a broader perspective on scholarly communication. Case in point: Beall has blithely declared the “serials crisis” to be over, but those of us who manage resources beg to differ. Read more
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Anti-OA and the Rhetoric of Reaction
Wayne
Bivens-Tatum chimed in on December 17, 2013 at Academic
Librarian—and as usual his perspective is different, interesting and
thought out. The lede: You know when someone at Scholarly Kitchen thinks
your anti-open access rant is excessive you’ve crossed some sort of
threshold. You also know that when a biologist and a co-founder of the
Public Library of Science bothers to give your article a thorough fisking,
you have people’s attention. Even Roy Tennant seems a little riled, and
he’s usually pretty calm. Jeffrey Beall has managed to publish an antiopen
access article in an open access journal that’s so poorly argued that I
wonder if he’ll later use the publication as an example of how bad OA
publishing can be. The Beall Hoax.
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Beall has Gone Bananas: Beall has essentially discredited himself
This
one is from Anton Angelo posted on or before December 10, 2013 at mumbles.
(The post doesn’t Cites & Insights April 2014 8 include a date, but I
tagged it on December 10 and the first comment appears on that date.) He
leads with this: Jeffrey Beall has essentially discredited himself. The time
has come to take his important work in identifying predatory publishers from
him, and run another list, one that can be trusted.
Angelo
appreciated Beall’s list and “forgave certain amount of
self-aggrandizement”…until the triple C article appeared. His
argument boils down to the following: the OA movement is really a monolithic
stalking horse behind which there is a cabal wanting to establish
centralised control of academic publishing. Which is, of course, nonsense.
It’s a pity, because the moderates that support OA will see him as a bit
of a loony, and will no longer trust his good work on predatory publishing.
Those on the libertarian right will think he’s entertainingly provocative,
and those on the infantile left (to borrow from Lenin) will see him as a
traitor. Read more
Credibility of Beall’s List : Writes half-truths, errors and downright nonsense
We’ll
start with someone I rarely quote: Stevan Harnad, writing on December 9,
2013 at his GOAL/amsciforum mail list. Harnad is all about green OA, as
he’s made clear a few thousand times. After a citation, he begins:
This
wacky article is going to be fun to review. I still think Jeff Beall is
doing something useful with his naming and shaming of junk OA journals, but
I now realize that he is driven by some sort of fanciful conspiracy theory!
“OA is all an anti-capitalist plot.” (Even on a quick skim it is evident
that Jeff’s article is rife with half-truths, errors and downright
nonsense. Pity. It will diminish the credibility of his valid exposés, but
maybe this is a good thing, if the judgment and motivation behind Beall’s
list is as kooky as this article! But alas it will now also give the genuine
“predatory” junk-journals some specious arguments for discrediting
Jeff’s work altogether. Of course it will also give the publishing lobby
some good soundbites, but they use them at their peril, because of all the
other nonsense in which they are nested!) Read
more
Beall Doubles Down
And
then this happened:
The
Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access
That’s
the title of Jeffrey Beall’s contribution to a special OA section
of non-refereed articles in triple C: communication, capitalism &
critique (11:2). It may be worth noting that this journal (which
includes both peer-reviewed articles and other stuff, all of
it clearly labeled) is, ahem, a gold OA journal— albeit one that
(as with most gold OA journals) does not charge article
processing fees. Read
more
Posted on June 10, 2015
Beall’s
list was controversial from the start
Beall’s
list was controversial from the start, not least because it was often not
clear on what basis he had concluded that a publisher was predatory.
Moreover, when last year he finally published the selection criteria he
uses to make his decisions he met with some angry criticism, with
researchers questioning both their validity and usefulness.
It also became apparent that Beall’s list included publishers who appeared to be entirely ethical, and to all intents and purposes keen to publish high-quality OA journals. To add to critics’ distrust, publishers’ names would sometimes disappear from Beall’s list without explanation. Read more
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Posted on June 05, 2015
Walt
Crawford on Beall's list
Walt
Crawford has done excellent work on OA-journals, DOAJ and especially on
Bealls list. He has published his works in his Cites and Insights –http://citesandinsights.info/.
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Posted on May 30, 2015
Beall's
Predatory Business at the expenses of Publishers: Beall
fails to acknowledge that open peer review
Beall’s
critiques of open access are not always as factual as they could be, so as
an open access advocate I am concerned when his polemics are presented to an
academic audience that may not know all the facts. So below is my response
to selections from his
article:
The open-access movement is a coalition that aims to bring down the traditional scholarly publishing industry and replace it with voluntarism and server space subsidized by academic libraries and other nonprofits. It is concerned more with the destruction of existing institutions than with the construction of new and better ones. Read more
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Posted on May 25, 2015
Beall’s position as
tenuous: Imperfect English or a predominantly non-Western editorial board
does not make a journal predatory
Jeffrey Beall, a librarian
at the University of Colorado-Denver, who curates a blacklist of
“potential, possible, or probable” predatory OA publishers and journals. Beall’s
list has become a go-to tool and has even been featured in New York Times
but it is not the final word on predatory publishing, partially because
Beall himself has a complicated, and not entirely supportive, attitude
toward OA in general.
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Beall not served
as an editor in any reputable journal but criticize all journal at his
vicinity
Jeffrey Beall is on a crusade of his own. It is baffling that someone w/o any substantive track record in research can make sweeping comments about other scholars, scientists, renowned academics and organizations of standing and reputation. His commentaries are without basis and frivolous. His claims are bogus. This blog invites scholars, academics and researchers to comment about this individual who under the pretext of serving the academic community is merely distorting facts with baseless commentaries and without any scientific or scholarly expertise. Read More
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Jeffrey Beall is blackmailing small Open Access publishers through blogs
I
was surprised when one of our editors told me that the name of Ashdin
Publishing is found in the list of "Beall's List: Potential, possible,
or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers" (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/)
and I was surprised because of the following reasons:
1.The author did not just mention the criteria for determining predatory open-access publishers, but he insisted on mentioning the full names and details of the publishers as well.
2.Some
of these criteria, for determining predatory open-access publishers, can be
applied on a huge number of publishers (include some of the large and famous
ones), but he did not mention any of them.
3.Some of the publishers names are removed from this list without saying the reasons for this removal. Read more
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Beall is a
academic criminal and terrorist
How Mustang Journals got its start… I’ve wanted to start a series of academic journals for some time. I’ve noticed many are not consumer friendly. Some a cliquey like high school, were the same group of friends always get a paper published, and outsiders are left cold. Some are elitist, and the author’s school determines the acceptance, not the quality of the paper. Some are dreadfully slow, and will not give you an answer until long after the need for evaluations by deans. On the whole, they are intimidating to the new professor. Remembering my own confusion upon joining academe, I wanted to provide a system of journals and conferences that would help nurture new faculty or faculty new to the publishing endeavor. Read more
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Beall is absolutely insane
he Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access That’s the title of Jeffrey Beall’s contribution to a special OA section of non-refereed articles in triple C: communication, capitalism & critique (11:2). It may be worth noting that this journal (which includes both peer reviewed articles and other stuff, all of it clearly labeled) is, ahem, a gold OA journal— albeit one that (as with most gold OA journals) does not charge article processing fees. If that fairly startling title isn’t enough, here’s the abstract in full: "While the open-access (OA) movement purports to be about making scholarly content open-access, its true motives are much different. The OA movement is an anti-corporatist movement that wants to deny the freedom of the press to companies it disagrees with. Read More
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Predatory
librarian Beall has no credibility
As a bystander, I found Mr Beall's website a few days ago and paid close attention to what he wrote about MDPI. I also checked up some facts on my own, and posted a few comments. My comments went through initially. When I checked again today, I noticed that all my comments are gone. I can only assume that Mr Beall deleted them. Read more
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Beall
negotiated the ransom with open access publisher to remove from hit list for
160,000 USD, not by bank
account, but in cash in a place in New York
Predatory
blogger Beall, collects the money to accounts in Choice Bank in Belize or to
Loyal Bank in St. Vincent
My
name is Lu Chen and I work in SCIRP www.scirp.org as Web Designer. Also, I help SCIRP conferences as Secretariat from time to time.
I contact this criminal Jeffrey Beall and I asked him to remove SCIRP from
his black list. Jeffrey Beal asked my Phone Number and I gave it. Jeffrey Beal call me back and told me that he could help SCIRP, but SCIRP
must also help him. I was astonished when he told me that he could remove SCIRP from his black
list provided that we would give him 160,000 USD not by bank account,
but in cash in a place in New York. Read more
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Writing
a blog that slanders everyone not considered as scientific research
Does the University of Denver pay you a salary, Mr. Jeffrey Beall, or do
you pay the University to let you bear the title of Assistant Professor?
A
title that you really do not deserve, as you have no Ph.D., no actual
research work and do no teaching whatsoever. It is a shame for the
University of Denver to have professors like you, Jeffrey Beall.
Or
is running a blog that slanders everyone and everything considered
scientific research?
It
most certainly is not, Mr. Jeffrey Beall.
Could
it be, however, an applied money-making project for you and your university,
Mr. Jeffrey Beall? Read more
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Pseudo-scholar
Jeffrey Beall is a thug
Demanded ransom US$ 100,000 to re-analyze open access publisher
My
name is Petre Dini and I am the President of IARIA,
www.iaria.org
I
am also victim of Jeffrey Beall
Actually,
this pseudo-scholar Jeffrey Beall is a thug. He uses black
lists to create profit. Also he is involved in tax evation and
money laundry.
I
asked him several times to remove IARIA from his black list
and he promised me to re-analyze the site www.iaria.org
There
is not any real reason to have our institute IARIA in his
pseudo-list. he
cost to re-analyze the portal of my organization www.iaria.org was 100,000
USD, Read
more
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Pressbox, UK (Press Release)
USD 5000 is enough to remove your publisher's name from Beall's list
Unethical bribery business model
The author did not just mention the criteria for determining predatory
open-access publishers, but he insisted on mentioning the full names and
details of the publishers as well.
Some of these criteria, for determining predatory open-access publishers,
can be applied on a huge number of publishers (include some of the large and
famous ones), but he did not mention any of them.
Some of the publishers names are removed from this list without saying the
reasons for this removal. Read more
Fake Website by Jefrrey Beall
We are not wrong to say that Jeffrey Beall is publishing bluffing on his website. He has written our company name on his website. We ask him that why you have written our company name on your website… he said if I though I do. We ask him to remove our name instead of that he has written a note on his website… he is just trying to create problems for upcoming journals… We had also sent one of the recent review report on his mail id and ask him that please give your guideline on what basis you write our company’s name but he do not have any genuine reason for the same. Read more
April 01, 2015
Beall has no formal training in doing self-guided research
Beall’s has never obtained formal training in doing self-guided research. He is doing his “research” as an autodidact. Based on his article in tripleC (Beal 2013) Bivens-Tatum (2014)proved that Beal is not capable (or willing) of logical conclusions. His criteria to assess publishers are questionable. Beall does not specify how his criteria are applied to come to a verdict about a publisher. His own application of his criteria with respect to publishers is non-existent (or hidden). Read more
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People have started to
turn away from Beall
List should be ignored
Beall [is] acting as
prosecutor, judge and jury on who’s predatory and who’s not. Remarkably,
hundreds if not thousands of librarians and others seem to take Beall’s
word as gospel.” (Crawford
2014a) But it seems he has been going too far and people have started to
turn away from him. “… the lists should be ignored.” (Crawford
2014b)
Read more
March 20, 2015
Beall's claims rejected by Open Access Scholarly
publisher Association (OASPA)
Predatory blogger exposed
Investigations
have encompassed review of internal correspondence at MDPI, detailed
information on the handling of peer-review, decision making and reviewer
reports, plus external comments, blogs and websites. Based on our
findings we feel satisfied that MDPI continue to meet the OASPA Membership
Criteria. Read more
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Beall
who has no PhD himself, published scholarly comments on a "Biophysics review"
Beall has only Bachelor degree in "Spanish" Language
First,
in May 2013, Beall who has no PhD himself, published scholarly comments on a
biophysics review paper that was published by a senior PhD scientist from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. The paper was
published after the usual procedure: it was refereed, revised and later
approved by both peer-reviewers and an external, academic editor of the
journal after major revisions. The paper is somewhat hypothetical and
controversial—however, it is up to expert scholars in the domain of the
paper to judge its merits and to provide critical, scholarly comments and
follow-up research. Read more
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Does
the University of Denver pay you a salary, Mr. Jeffrey Beall, or do you pay
the University to let you bear the title of Assistant Professor?
A title that you really do not deserve, as you have no
Ph.D., no actual research work and do no teaching whatsoever. It is a shame
for the University of Denver to have professors like you, Jeffrey Beall.
Or
is running a blog that slanders everyone and everything considered
scientific research?
It
most certainly is not, Mr. Jeffrey Beall.
Could
it be, however, an applied money-making project for you and your university,
Mr. Jeffrey Beall? Read more
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March 10, 15
Jeffrey
Beall is an impostor and academic criminal - Dr. Clement
I recently forwarded an email to him from this Publisher: xyz
Actually
this publisher is spamming me everyday and promise rapid publication of my
papers to its conferences and journals. Also, instead of conference
proceedings, they push all the papers from the conferences to their journals
which is unacceptable.
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The
Wheels Come Off the Beall express… Beall's first
sentence may qualify as “not even wrong"
The story picks up from there.
The Serials Crisis is Over.
That absurd title heads this May 7, 2013 post by
Beall at Scholarly Open Access; just below it is a silly image of a
locked version of the OA open-lock with smart quotes around it. Huh? "I
declare that the serials crisis, the event that gave birth to the
open-access movement, is over. I base my declaration on my observations as
an academic librarian and on the scholarly literature, selections from which
I include here:
That first sentence may qualify as “not even
wrong.” Beall’s evidence that the serials crisis “gave birth to the
open-access movement?” I guess because Beall says so. Just to be clear: If
all scholarly journal publishers agreed that, for every academic library in
the world, the total cost for all scholarly journals would be, say,
20% of the library budget (which would be much lower than what most
medium-sized and larger academic libraries spend now), that would not
eliminate the need for OA. Just for starters, it would not
provide any access to me or any other researcher or layman who’s
not affiliated with an academic institution. Read
more
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March
01, 2015
Beall’s List, is really an assault
Since
I first became aware of Beall’s List, however, I have been following some
of Beall’s work with growing unease. Here and there some (to me)
distasteful political ideology peeked through (with my pragmatic mindset,
any kind of ideology makes me queasy), but you don’t have to agree with
somebody all the time to agree with them some of the time. But now, in
a recent screed, he has crossed the line. While I continue to
admire Beall’s List, the broader critique (really an assault) of Gold OA
and those who advocate it is too strong for me. Sorry, Jeffrey, but
I’m not with you on this.
So
what is that Beall is expounding? The following comes from the
conclusion to his essay:
The
open-access movement isn’t really about open access. Instead, it is about
collectivizing production and denying the freedom of the press from those
who prefer the subscription model of scholarly publishing. Read
more
February 28, 2015
Beall is a academic terrorist
It is a real shame that Jeffrey Beall using Nature.com's blog to promote his predatory work. Jeffrey Beall just simply confusing us to promote his academic terrorism. His list is fully questionable. His surveying method is not scientific. If he is a real scientist then he must do everything in standard way without any dispute. He wanted to be famous but he does not have the right to destroy any company name or brand without proper allegation. If we support Jeffrey Beall's work then we are also a part of his criminal activity. Please avoid Jeffrey Beall's fraudulent and criminal activity.
Now a days anyone can open a blog and start doing things like Jeffrey Beall which is harmful for science and open access journals. Nature should also be very alert from Jeffrey Beall who is now using Nature's reputation to broadcast his bribery and unethical business model. Read more
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February 24, 2015
The
case for treating Beall as a questionable source : Beall acting as prosecutor, judge and jury
Sad case of Jeffrey Beall :
He’s the one man authority on predatory—but only predatory
OA—publishing
Open access (OA)
is all about ethics, economics and equity, and the three interact in various
ways. OA is inherently at the intersection of libraries, media, policy and
technology—but that’s a different issue. This is the first of a trio of
essays: two related to fairly specific situations, one covering a range of
ethical discussions. Depending on how you define “ethics,” I could also
include sections on Elsevier and OA, embargoes, fallacious and misleading
anti- OA arguments and the whole area of peer review. Or maybe not. In any
case, we lead off with the sad case of Jeffrey Beall. Since Beall’s chief
claim to fame is his ever growing list of supposedly predatory OA journals,
and since I’m showing the case for treating Beall as a questionable
source, I have to say this: In case you’re thinking “Walt’s claiming
there are no scam OA journals,” I’m not—and toward the end of this
essay, I’ll quote some useful ways to avoid scam journals regardless of
their business model. Read more
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February 21, 2015
Another
failed attempt to collect ransom: Beall
goes beyond ridiculous
Beall
is a clown, suitable for only the merry-go-round at the Colorado carnival. A
recent article posted (January 29, 2015) on his blog revealed his real
motive behind criticizing others’ work. Beall is now, not only criticizing
journals, but also conferences and their locations. If the conference
location is in a popular tourist destination, it will be subject to
Beall’s predatory wrath. According to him, this type of location provides
the opportunity for researchers to obtain a university-paid vacation. Read
more
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February 17, 2015
Canadian Agency slammed: Beall's another extortion attempt failed
Response to the “poorly-written statement” by
self-proclaimed journal critic of Denver, Colorado, USA.
This is in response to a recent article published on the http://scholarlyoa.com
website.
The
scholarlyoa.com website is run by self-proclaimed journal critic and
sole editor of the website Mr. Jeffery Beall. His blog does not
allow anyone arguing against his own opinion. While The Ontario
International Development Agency (Agency) appreciates Mr. Beall’s
freedom of expression, denied his allegations regarding the Agency
and OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development (IJSD).
The
Agency attempted on numerous occasions to contact Mr.Beall to obtain
clarification regarding his opinions, but all requests were
unanswered. Read More
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Beall’s Litter
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February 11, 2015
Beall's List of Howlers: Cameo Responds
This wacky article is easy to debunk. It reveals, however,
that Jeff is driven by some sort of fanciful conspiracy
theory! 'OA is all an anti-capitalist plot.' (Even on a quick
skim it is evident that his article is rife with half-truths,
errors and downright nonsense. Pity. It will diminish the
credibility of his valid exposés. Maybe this is a good thing,
if the judgment and motivation behind Beall's list is as kooky
as this article, but it will now also give the genuine
"predatory" junk-journals some specious arguments
for discrediting Jeff's work altogether. It will also furnish
the publishing lobby with some good sound-bites -- but they
use them at their peril, because of all the patent nonsense in
which they are inseparably embedded!) Read
More
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February 08, 2015
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish: Beall’s attempt to
monitor peer review process for science and technology
journals is ridiculous and laughable
SPOTLIGHT:
Frontiers responds to 'Beall's list' post
Analysis and Opinion
Jeffrey Beall wrote a post on
his Scholarly Open Access blog raising questions about the
Swiss open-access (OA) publisher Frontiers. In Beall’s post
he wrote, ‘Frontiers does not meet the criteria for
inclusion as a predatory publisher, but I regularly receive
complaints about its spamming and editorial practices. I
realise that there are probably many people that are satisfied
with Frontiers, and that it is likely publishing good science.
Still, there is value in sharing others’ experiences with
this publisher.’ Read more
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February
04, 2015
A Predatory Librarian Jeffrey Beall: The crook, the felon, the
criminal of the Academic Community
I recently made an inquiry to Jeffrey Beall (the Denver, USA
librarian who runs a webpage where he slanders and insults
about 500 publishing houses), whether he, Jeffrey Beall
himself, has the ability to solve the simple math equation 5x+3
= 0.
Jeffrey
Beall replied to my first email, that he has never studied even the
simplest form of Math. Meaning that he doesn’t know what “equation”
means (he has never even seen equations like 5x+3 = 0, 3x*x + 7x -4
=0 etc), neither does he know what “Derivative” or “Integral”
mean. Read More
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Beall’s attempt at being a Godfather of Open Access is ridiculous
Beall started the Open Access blog mainly to discredit Open Access Publishers and Journals. Furthermore Beall never attempted contact those whose work he criticized. Instead of raising his questions and concerns directly with the journals and publishers involved, he jumped right in to his criticism of them openly and publicly. Read More
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January 20, 2015
Beall’s analysis is problematic - Nature
A recent article published on Nature identified serious issues in Jeffrey Beall’s characterization of the Open Access Journals. Nature further explained that Beall’s analysis has no merit and is fuelled by external factors, which are not directly related to, nor do they affect the quality of publication. This only further established a lack of credibility surrounding his blog. Read More
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January 09, 2015
Beall’s extortion attempts exposed
Self proclaimed Journal critic Jeffrey Beall failed in his attempts to extort the Canadian Agency. It was reported that the so called Open Access hero demanded one million U.S. dollars to remove the Agency’s Journal from his target list. This is not the first time this type of allegation has surfaced. Many Open Access Journals and Publishers are receiving emails from Beall’s bully brigade demanding large sums of cash to remove journals from his list. Beall attempted to establish authority for evaluating Open Access journals. To do this he utilized his association with the University of Denver, Colorado, USA and his position there as Librarian. Initially Beall will include Journal and Open Access publishers into his list and he then provides his analysis. His analysis has no merit, however, but only serves the purpose of extortion manifested through his tactics. Read More
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