Professor Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva Caution with the continued use of Jeffrey Beall’s “predatory” open access publishing lists. Reliance on Beall’s lists is flawed http://amj.amegroups.com/article/view/3946/4658 See more http://amj.amegroups.com/article/view/3946/4658 Beall “predatory open access” blog: rise and fall Other Section Mr. Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver, with an MA in English and Spanish, but no PhD, became famous because of his blog, www.scholarlyoa.com . Beall’s blog thus became synonymous with Beall, and Beall with his blog, and both are used interchangeably in this paper. Thus, praise or criticisms that one regularly reads in social media or blogs that refer to one, in general refer to both. Beall was the sole author—save for a few “guest” posts—of the entire blog content, and must thus be held accountable for everything that he published, just as equally as academics who publish are always accoun...
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