[Air-L] Elsevier and peer review

Joy McNally JMcNally at ucsusa.org
Wed Jan 18 06:53:07 PST 2017


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-journals-reportedly-removed-due-threats-and-politics 

Someone mentioned that the criteria has been included in Cabell's https://www.cabells.com/about-us 

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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-list-of-allegedly-predatory-publishers/

It is all very odd. Does anyone have any leads on this?

best,

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On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Kalpana Shankar <kalpana.shankar at 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 at 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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