#beall's list

[phdstudents]

When I’ve just learned that @Jeffrey_Beall‘s list of predatory journals has vanished

[academicpublishingprotips]

Beall’s List Still Lives... Kinda

Hey Y’all,

It was a dark day for academia when Beall’s list vanished from the internet. However, nothing on the internet ever truly vanishes. I’ve found a cloned version of it. 

The List

[library-comps-prompts]

Predatory open access publishers

“In academic publishing, predatory open access publishing is an exploitative open-access publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not). "Beall's List", a regularly updated report by Jeffrey Beall, sets forth criteria for categorizing predatory publications and lists publishers and independent journals that meet those criteria.”--Wikipedia.

At least, that list was available until recently; it has now been shut down. 

What responsibility do libraries have to help their faculty identify appropriate publication venues? Is a blacklist or similar database a good way to achieve this? If so, how should it be maintained?

[pussreboots]

Beall's List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. We recommend that scholars read the avail...