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<p>Hi,</p>
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<p>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:</p>
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<p><i>"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."</i></p>
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<p>And so on, and so on. Is that the kind of guy we want to depend
on? No thanks.
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<p>And yes, he actually wrote this! In an obscure open-access
journal, ironically.<br>
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<p>- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514">http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514</a></p>
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<p>Michael Eisen wrote an interesting blog about this:</p>
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<p>- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1500">http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1500</a><br>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Sebastiaan</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/01/2017 14:30, John Neuhoff
wrote:<br>
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<p>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:<br>
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<p>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.
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<div class="PlainText">Dear fellow CVNetters and
Visionlisters,<br>
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Some of you may have already noticed but I only just
found out: Beall's <br>
List of potential predatory publishers and journals has
disappeared. <br>
It's just gone. We can imagine why this has happened but
in any case I <br>
find it highly disturbing. Beall's List may not have
been perfect but it <br>
has been tremendously helpful to me over the years, to
sort out all <br>
those treacherous invitations I got, and still get, on a
regular basis.<br>
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Note, though, that a snapshot of both the publishers
list and journals <br>
list are still mirrored on the web (details in that
link), so it is <br>
still time to download them (ASAP).<br>
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All the best,<br>
Hans<br>
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