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Self
Proclaimed Journal Critic: No Governing Body Jeffrey
Beall works in the Auraria Library, University of Colorado, Denver, USA.
He is an employee same as everyone else. He began a blog titled “scholarly
open access—Critical
analysis of scholarly open-access publishing”
in the year 2009. His blog is not associated with the university and does
not represent the university in any way. Beall, however, utilizes
university resources including his university e-mail address for his
activities on the blog. His contact information is posted on the blog as
follows, e-mail: jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu.
He does not post his physical location in his blog. Jeffrey
Beall: Potentially, possibly, or probably a predatory blogger Open
access is a new, digital, revolutionized way of communicating research
among their readers and authors. Not that this has any significance to
Beall however, who maintains a list of publishers and Journals that he
considers predatory. His highly questionable, probably, and possibly
predatory blog discredits many involved in publishing houses. His main
targets have been publishing houses and journals from Asia, Africa, and
the Middle East. Beall’s
Questionable and Predatory Criteria Beall
himself created his own criteria for evaluating Open access Journals. The
issue here though, is that validity of his criteria has not been tested
with any governing authority associated with scholarly publishing. His
blog however, clearly stated many other criteria when discrediting
Journals. For example, article processing fees in US dollars is one of the
reasons he uses to determine when a Journal is predatory. Please read our
articles for more information. Questionable
Beall’s
Platinum and Gold Predatory Criteria Beall
created two criteria when evaluating journals. In his platinum category,
the author charges article processing fees. On the other hand, in the gold
category, authors won’t
charge article processing fees and papers are published free of charge. This
categorization has a serious problem since no organization can financially
survive as a publisher without receiving funds for their operation. In
order to be successful and be able to survive financially, it is necessary
to have some sort of funding mechanism in place. The most Open Access
publishers charge is article processing fees. There is no justification
for publishing free articles or any mode of publication methods free of
charge. University
Funds Scammer: Beall is a huge cost to the University of Colorado system? Beall
heavily utilized the University of Colorado’s system; including
internet, computers, office space, and maintenance of his office such as
electricity, cleaning, furniture, and even photocopy machines.
He works on his blog on the university’s time while he is being
paid by the University to work for them not on his leisure blogging hobby.
The only positive is that at a minimum, he has posted a disclaimer page on
his blog in which he himself declared that the University of Colorado has
no affiliation on his blog. Beall
is defrauding the University of Colorado’s system and should be shamed
not of anyone else, but only of himself. Despite Beall’s
claims of non-affiliation with the University of Colorado, all scamming
activities have been conducted utilizing the university’s resources. It
appears as though Beall chiefly aims to trade on the University of
Colorado’s good name to attract people from abroad to justify his claims
on his predatory blog.
Jeffrey
Beall's Bogus profile From
the profile (http://library.auraria.edu/directory/staff/beall/jeffrey) ,it
is glaringly evident Jeffrey Beall is not a scholar; he doesn’t even
have a doctoral degree and has not published in any leading/reputable
journals. In fact, the only publications he has to his credit (as
reflected in his profile) happens to have been produced in the last two
years (there is nil track record of prior publications). That too ONLY 7
publications (pretty pathetic track record to claim to be scholarly). He
has never served in any academic or editorial committee. Hence his
commentaries and statements are merely an opinion by a quasi (self
anointed) academic and not scholarly. A blatant attempt to mislead in the
pretext of a scholar. Jeffrey Beall should be sponsored by someone to earn
a doctoral degree first before he can even attempt to make a qualified
opinion on scholarly publications. His basic degree is from a state
university and a masters from another state university. That is hardly
scholarly. A very weak attempt to mislead by someone who claims to be an
expert with scholarly qualifications. In fact he is trying to sell his
services (please visit http://library.auraria.edu/directory/staff/beall/jeffrey)
to consult and train whereas he himself needs further education before he
can rightfully claim to be an expert. Academic
Fraudster and Imposter There
are numerous cases against Beall, the allegations of which all follow a
similar pattern, as many publishing houses and Open access journals
revealed their experience with him. At first, Beall’s
associate contacted Journals and threatened to blacklist them. Later, he
demanded ransom. If anyone pays this ransom, their journal is removed from
the list.
All those who refused to pay ransom are included into Beall’s
hit list.
Phony
Beall’s
Kangaroo court Once
a blacklisted journal is included into the so-called Beall list, he will
provide opportunity to appeal against his decision. According to his Blog
the appeal will hear before a so-called panel. To make matters worse, the
names of the individuals in the panel are not listed. Furthermore, the
appeal process and procedure are also not published. Their main target is
evidently to scam journals and publishing houses. Once the ransom is
received Beall removes the Journal from his hit list. Beall
Conspiracy Beall’s
anti Open Access agenda is driven by major publishing houses. Beall’s
list will grow until all popular open access journals have been black
listed. This will drive researchers to publish their work in the highly
paid open access journals. These groups will control publications from the
Human Sciences field to the medical sciences field. They want to take back
their control over research publications. Used
personal biases, useless
blogger Academic
terrorist Jeffrey Beall just simply confusing us to promote
his academic terrorism. His list is fully questionable. His surveying
method is not scientific. If he is a real scientist then he must do
everything in standard way without any dispute. He wanted to be famous but
he does not have the right to destroy any company name or brand without
proper allegation. If we support Jeffrey Beall's work then we are also a
part of his criminal activity. Please avoid Jeffrey Beall's fraudulent and
criminal activity. Beall’s
academic fraud and activities must end and everyone must now be more
vigilant about these activities.
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