All I want to say is that I agree wholeheartedly with Chris. He definitely isn't the only one to be outraged.
Johannes (Jan) J M Velterop Sent from Jan Velterop's iPhone. Please excuse for brevity and typos. > On 3 Oct 2015, at 11:32, Chris Zielinski <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have no personal involvement in this issue (other than being aghast when > SciELO appeared on the List of Predatory Journals recently - it now seems to > have been removed, after multiple protests) and don't know any of the > participants personally, but I can't be the only one who finds this post from > Beall outrageous, with its insinuations that Archambault has a financial > motive for his post, and may be racist. Archambault's reply is far, far too > polite! > > Chris > Chris Zielinski > [email protected] > Blogs: http://ziggytheblue.wordpress.com and http://ziggytheblue.tumblr.com > Research publications: http://www.researchgate.net > >> On 2 October 2015 at 15:55, Beall, Jeffrey <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Eric: >> >> >> >> I have two questions. >> >> >> >> 1. For the record, does your for-profit business or do you personally have >> any business relationship with any of the publishers or journals on my >> lists? If so, which ones? >> >> >> >> 2. In your email you refer to a recently-published article, and you name and >> discuss the second author, but you fail to mention or credit the lead and >> corresponding author, Cenyu Shen. Was this because of his race? >> >> >> >> Jeffrey Beall >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Éric Archambault >> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 7:38 AM >> To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci <[email protected]> >> Subject: [GOAL] Need for a new beginning >> >> >> >> Dear list members: >> >> What started as a one-man, useful list that identified “Potential, possible, >> or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers”, which Jeffrey >> himself further qualifies as a “list of questionable, scholarly open-access >> publishers”, has now overshot its usefulness. We need a new beginning. >> >> If these publishers are questionable, let’s find a mechanism to question >> them, and let’s, at the very least, document their answers. Currently, this >> list of >> >> Release Date: 10/01/15 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> GOAL mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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