Kudos to Jeffrey Beall, and regrets for the negative spam you have endured. Jeffrey, even though it may create some extra traffic for everyone on this listserv, may I suggest that you forward at least examples of the offending spam attacks, so that we are all well informed and can perhaps help or independently evaluate those messages. I realize that I am asking for something that everyone may not appreciate nor that may be acceptable to members of this list or to the moderator, but nothing serves to expose darkness like light. In any case, keep up the good work, despite the efforts to curtail it!
Best wishes, Paul ________________________________________ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison [hgmor...@sfu.ca] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 1:19 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); scholc...@ala.org T.F. Cc: SOAF post; BOAI Forum post Subject: [GOAL] Thank you Jeffrey Beall! My reaction: thank you, Jeffrey Beall! - both for the important service of tracking those predatory open access publishers, and for exposing this attempt to discredit you. Bravo! Further applause on IJPE: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-huge-thank-you-to-jeffrey-beall.html best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 18-Dec-12, at 9:48 AM, Peter Suber wrote: > [Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list. --Peter > Suber.] > > > Colleagues, > > > > I am the author of Scholarly Open Access, a blog that includes lists > of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent > journals. > > > > I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing, > organized attempt to discredit me and my blog. > > > > Specifically, I've been a victim of email spoofing, in which someone > is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are not. > > > > One of the spoofed emails is an offer to "reevaluate" a publisher's > presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to > make it look like I am extorting money from publishers. > > > > Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the > spoofed email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An > example is here. > > > > Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my > work on various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names > of people prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was > in the comments section of my October Nature piece. The publisher > has removed these spurious statements and closed further comments. > > > > I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory > publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list > are true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a > criminal way. > > > > I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried > to learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I > have tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not > engaged in any of the activities that they are trying to frame me > with. > > > > Thanks for your understanding. > > > > Jeffrey > > > > Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor > > Scholarly Initiatives Librarian > Auraria Library > University of Colorado Denver > 1100 Lawrence St. > Denver, Colo. 80204 USA > (303) 556-5936 > jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu > > > > <image001.jpg> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
