Beall's List

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'''Beall's List of Predatory Open Access Publishers''', shortened to '''Beall's List''', was an annual publication listing publishers who are "potential, possible, or probable" agents of predatory open-access publishing, an exploitative business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not). Written by {{wpl|Jeffrey Beall}} from the University of Colorado in Denver, the list sets criteria for categorizing predatory publications and lists publishers and independent journals that meet those criteria.<ref>[http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/on-predatory-publishers-a-qa-with-jeffrey-beall/47667 On Predatory Publishers: a Q&A With Jeffrey Beall] by Carl Elliott (June 5, 2012) ''The Chronicle of Higher Education''.</ref> Newer scholars from developing countries are said to be especially at risk of becoming the victim of these practices.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Predatory Publishing: What Authors Need to Know|journal=Research in Nursing & Health|volume=38|pages=1–3|year=2015|last1=Kearney|first1=Margaret H.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Who publishes in "predatory" journals?|journal=Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology|pages=1406–1417|year=2014|last1=Xia|first1=Jingfeng|last2=Harmon|first2=Jennifer L.|last3=Connolly|first3=Kevin G.|last4=Donnelly|first4=Ryan M.|last5=Anderson|first5=Mary R.|last6=Howard|first6=Heather A.|volume=66|issue=7}}</ref>

On January 15, 2017, the list was brought down due to harassment from some predatory publishers who were listed and pressure from his employer, the University of Colorado Denver.<ref>[https://debunkingdenialism.com/2017/06/15/we-now-know-why-jeffrey-beall-removed-list-of-allegedly-predatory-publishers/ "We Now Know Why Jeffrey Beall Removed List of (Allegedly) Predatory Publishers"], ''Debunking Denialism''.</ref> Fortunately, the internet has it archived.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170111172306/https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers] (archive.org page of Beall's List from January 11, 2017)</ref><ref>[http://archive.ph/CK0S6 Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers] (archive.ph page of Beall's List from January 16, 2017)</ref> Go nuts!

Since the demise of Beall's List, at least two other similar, now-defunct sites popped up, a list by the The Knowledge Resource Division of CSIR-SERC,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171214182917/http://krd.serc.res.in/predatory-publishers-and-journals/ Predatory Publishers and Journals] (07-13-2017) (archived from December 14, 2017).</ref> and an anonymously-written website.<ref>[https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/ List of Predatory Journals] ''Predatory Journals'' (archived from January 9, 2021).</ref><ref>[https://researchmatters.in/news/precarious-prevalence-predatory-journals The precarious prevalence of predatory journals] by Sudhira H S (28 Jan 2018) ''Research Matters''.</ref>

==Problems with Beall==
Beall published an article arguing against the ''whole'' of open access publishing and not just ''predatory'' open access, claiming it to be an "anti-corporatist" [''sic''], [[red-baiting|"collectivist"]], "cooperative" movement which wishes to "replace a [[free market]] with an artificial and highly regulated one". He says as if this is a bad thing. He also plays up the connections to [[George Soros]], describing him as "known for his extreme left-wing views and the financing of their enactment as laws".<ref>[http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514 "The Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access"], ''tripleC''.</ref> Oh, and he [[Irony|published this nonsense in an ''open access journal'']]!

There is also that time Beall described {{w|SciELO}} and {{w|Redalyc||,}} two Latin American scholarly digital libraries, as "favelas", the Brazilian-Portuguese derogatory term for slums.<ref>[https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20161108155910/https://scholarlyoa.com/2015/07/30/is-scielo-a-publication-favela/ "Is SciELO a Publication Favela?"], ''Scholarly Open Access''.</ref> Yeah, not [[racist]]/[[classist]] at all!

==See also==
*[[Pseudojournal]]

==External links==
*{{wpa|Predatory open access publishing}}
*[https://scholarlyoa.com/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/ Beall's List as of 2014]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170104115901/https://scholarlyoa.com/2017/01/03/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2017/ An archived copy of Beall's List from 2017]
*[https://beallslist.net/ A mirrored site that's still maintained]

==References==
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