It is also not for me to say on behalf of Mr. Beall, but to note that Beall's list is solely a listing of "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers".
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Dana L. Roth Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540 dzr...@library.caltech.edu http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm ________________________________________ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] on behalf of Mauricio Tuffani [mauri...@tuffani.net] Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 11:26 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Still on the scientific open access journals in Brazil - response to Mister Jeffrey Beall [Message sent again with the same text, but in appropriate format and with shorter links. Please disregard the previous e-mail. Sorry for the unformatting.] Dear GOAL members, Let me please introduce myself. I am the journalist Mauricio Tuffani, quoted by Mr. Jeffrey Beall and Mrs. Bianca Amaro. I am a science writer and collaborator of "Folha de S. Paulo" (http://www.folha.com.br), the largest Brazilian daily newspaper. I have a blog hosted by this newspaper (http://folha.com/mauriciotuffani). It is not for me to say on behalf of Mr. Beall, but I must clarify misconceptions related to my posts and articles. I am not a researcher, as correctly said Mrs. Amaro, and she is not the first person to highlight this fact. The same thing was said by the board of directors of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which in 1989 I accused of defrauding the Amazon deforestation estimates. In the following year, the institute recognized its "small error" of about 50% and fired the coordinator of that work. And so it has been all these years. I would like to clarify that I have admiration for the Open Access . However, I am a journalist, and it is my duty to point out distortions that are of public interest. And there have been many distortions in the Brazilian academic production in recent years. While the number of published articles nearly quadrupled since 2000 (http://rs.gs/ldB), their relative impact to the world stagnated in the same period (http://rs.gs/jC2). Here in Brazil is very common to opt for quantitative growth believing that later will be possible to increase the quality. Because of this frequent illusion the country has mountains of waste in its economy, education, culture and other fields such as science. In Brazilian science and graduate education this quantitative growth without attention to quality involves several activities. Academic publishing is one of them, and within there is Open Access. The common point of all my posts indicated by Mr. Beall is the fact that poor quality journals have been accepted in the Qualis database, of CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel), of the Ministry of Education. Unlike what said Mrs. Bianca Amaro, I do not criticize "the use of this database for evaluation of Brazilian science in graduate programs." I just reported that the Qualis database accepts predatory journals (http://rs.gs/f8c). And I have reported this in all my posts highlighting clarifications as follows: "Both in the online open access, with fees paid by authors, as in the traditional model maintained by annual subscriptions or fees per article download from the Internet, the reputable journals take months or even over a year to review and accept articles, or rejected them. Accused of prioritizing minimizing costs and maximizing profits, the "predatory publishers" not only reduce to a few weeks the acceptance of articles, but are less selective and rigorous in this process." Mr. Jeffrey Beall's message header "Open Access in Brazil" was in fact too generic, but made no mistake. I have often received information that good Brazilian OA journals —which really want to build the golden road quoted by Mrs. Amaro— are losing the preference of researchers to predatory journals. I do not have metrics to show this preference for predatory journals, but I could show that more than 200 of them were accepted by Qualis, bringing consequences that come to be ridiculous (http://rs.gs/L9y) or anecdotal (http://rs.gs/z3b). Perhaps M r s. Amaro does not know this situation —and I do not know if she ought to know it— but those who should know it act like they did not know: CAPES, CNP q (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development), state funding agencies and universities. I am very glad that this issue has been brought to this discussion group. Sometimes problems of Brazilian science have been resolved " with a little help from" its friends outside Brazil. It happened, for example, with the fraudulent estimate of Amazon deforestation to which I referred at the beginning of this message. If the growing garbage from predatory journals in Brazil continue to be ignored, it will become much larger than the bucolic "golden road in the country" glorified by Mrs. Amaro. With my due respect for her opinion, I think her overreaction to the generic header of Mr. Beall's message is actually a disregard of a serious threat to the Open Access in Brazil. This threat is the inclusion of predatory journals in Qualis supported by the code of silence around this issue in the Brazilian academia. ( I know that I stretched too much what I had to say, but I can not resist sharing the following. I received right now a message sent by a full professor. He criticizes me for the inclusion of a journal on my list of "predatory Qualis ". And this journal says on its website: "21 day rapid review process with international peer-review standards".[http://rs.gs/wcS]) Thank you for your attention. *********************************** Maurício Tuffani Journalist, science writer São Paulo, SP, Brazil Mobile: +55 11 99164-8443 Phone: +55 11 2366-9949 http://folha.com/mauriciotuffani mauri...@tuffani.net ********************************** _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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