[visionlist] Beall's List gone dark

[Sebastiaan Mathot]

Hi,


Let's not glorify Jeffrey Beall too much (or at all). His list was 
useful, but it was never healthy that such an important resource was 
curated by a single nutcase. To illustrate, let me quote from one his 
papers:


/"The open-access movement is really about anti-corporatism. OA 
advocates want to make collective everything and eliminate private 
business, except for small businesses owned by the disadvantaged. They 
don't like the idea of profit, even though many have a large portfolio 
of mutual funds in their retirement accounts that invest in for-profit 
companies."/


And so on, and so on. Is that the kind of guy we want to depend on? No 
thanks.


And yes, he actually wrote this! In an obscure open-access journal, 
ironically.


- http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514


Michael Eisen wrote an interesting blog about this:


- http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1500


Cheers,

Sebastiaan


On 26/01/2017 14:30, John Neuhoff wrote:
>
> Losing Beall's list is really unfortunate, particularly for new 
> scholars. There is some talks that Cabell's International is 
> developing a similar list based, in part, on Beall's list. See:
>
>
> https://www.cabells.com/about-us
>
>
> There is some speculation that these two events are related (though 
> this has been denied by Cabell's). See also the efforts of Dr. Eugene 
> Noolah, a fictional character that has gotten himself appointed to the 
> editorial boards of several predatory journals.
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/Dr.Noolah/
>
>
> -JN
>
> ___________________________
> John G. Neuhoff
> Department of Psychology
> The College of Wooster
> http://jneuhoff.com
>
>
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> *From:* visionlist <visionlist-bounces at visionscience.com> on behalf of 
> Hans Strasburger <strasburger at uni-muenchen.de>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:02 AM
> *To:* cvnet; visionlist at visionscience.com
> *Subject:* [visionlist] Beall's List gone dark
> Dear fellow CVNetters and Visionlisters,
>
> Some of you may have already noticed but I only just found out: Beall's
> List of potential predatory publishers and journals has disappeared.
> It's just gone. We can imagine why this has happened but in any case I
> find it highly disturbing. Beall's List may not have been perfect but it
> has been tremendously helpful to me over the years, to sort out all
> those treacherous invitations I got, and still get, on a regular basis.
>
> http://retractionwatch.com/2017/01/17/bealls-list-potential-predatory-publishers-go-dark/
>
> Note, though, that a snapshot of both the publishers list and journals
> list are still mirrored on the web (details in that link), so it is
> still time to download them (ASAP).
>
> All the best,
> Hans
>
> www.hans.strasburger.de <http://www.hans.strasburger.de>
> Hans Strasburger <http://www.hans.strasburger.de/>
> www.hans.strasburger.de
> Prof. Dr. habil., Dr. rer. biol. hum., Dipl. Math., Dipl. Psych. Hans 
> Strasburger: Universität München Inst. f. Med. Psychologie 
> strasburger at uni-muenchen.de
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