[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-19 Thread Dominique Babini
I share with members of this list, some information provided by Abel Packer, Coordinator of the SciELO program. I copy him in this message .It is correct that a few journals included in SciELO collections charge APC´s. But only very few of the 1.147 journals included in SciELO from scholarly

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-17 Thread David Prosser
To: goal@eprints.org Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List Le lundi 16 décembre 2013 à 14:34 +, Graham Triggs a écrit : On 14 December 2013 20:53, Jean-Claude Guédon jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca wrote: Which terms have been

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-17 Thread Couture Marc
Citing a blog post (http://blog.scielo.org/en/2013/09/18/how-much-does-it-cost-to-publish-in-open-access ), Graham Triggs wrote: publishing in SciELO journals ranges from US $660 in one subsidized journal, to US $900 for foreign authors in another journal. US $900 puts it in a similar

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-17 Thread Graham Triggs
On 17 December 2013 16:32, Couture Marc marc.cout...@teluq.ca wrote: This is a somewhat incomplete, if not flawed argument. 1. The prices mentioned by Graham are just two examples (out of 280 current journals in SciELO Brazil). One reads further in the same blog post : “In the case of

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-17 Thread Couture Marc
-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] De la part de Graham Triggs Envoyé : 17 décembre 2013 16:18 À : Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Objet : [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List On 17 December 2013 16:32, Couture Marc marc.cout

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-16 Thread Graham Triggs
On 14 December 2013 20:53, Jean-Claude Guédon jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca wrote: Regarding an earlier post of your that seemed to complain that OA advocates are using too narrow and too strict a definition of open access, you might consider that the publishing industry, for its part, has

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-16 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Graham Triggs grahamtri...@gmail.comwrote: On 14 December 2013 20:53, Jean-Claude Guédon jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca wrote: Regarding an earlier post of your that seemed to complain that OA advocates are using too narrow and too strict a definition of

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-16 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
Le lundi 16 décembre 2013 à 14:34 +, Graham Triggs a écrit : On 14 December 2013 20:53, Jean-Claude Guédon jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca wrote: Which terms have been introduced by the publishing industry? The majority of the terms that I see regularly were introduced - or at

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-16 Thread David Prosser
Who introduced hybrid journals? I'm not 100% sure, but that may have been me! It seemed like a good idea at the time... David On 16 Dec 2013, at 20:28, Jean-Claude Guédon wrote: Le lundi 16 décembre 2013 à 14:34 +, Graham Triggs a écrit : On 14 December 2013 20:53, Jean-Claude

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-16 Thread Sally Morris
, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Guédon Sent: 16 December 2013 20:29 To: goal@eprints.org Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-16 Thread Graham Triggs
On 16 December 2013 20:28, Jean-Claude Guédon jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca wrote: Who introduced hybrid journals? who introduced delayed open access - an oxymoron if there ever was one? What about Elsevier's universal access? etc. etc. Admittedly, universal access is somewhat confusing.

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-14 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
__ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Penny Andrews Sent: 12 December 2013 17:04 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List Sally

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-14 Thread Sally Morris
Sent: 14 December 2013 20:53 To: goal@eprints.org Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List Sally, Re-use and text mining are not the same thing. If I distribute my own articles in my own classroom, this is re-use and it relies only on eye contact

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-13 Thread David Prosser
December 2013 17:04 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List Sally, for many scholars (who do currently exist, not just in the future) textmining is their main research activity. Open licensing to do

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-13 Thread Couture Marc
Sally Morris wrote : I find it interesting that no one has commented at all on the two main points I was trying to make (perhaps not clearly enough): 1)The focus of OA seems to be, to a considerable extent, the destruction of the publishing industry: note the hostile language of, for

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-13 Thread Jacinto Dávila
-- *From:* goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] *On Behalf Of *Penny Andrews *Sent:* 12 December 2013 17:04 *To:* Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) *Subject:* [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List Sally

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-13 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Sally Morris sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk wrote: I don't deny that re-use (e.g. text mining) is a valuable attribute of OA for some scholars; interestingly, however, it is rarely if ever mentioned in surveys which ask scholars for their own unprompted

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-13 Thread Graham Triggs
On 13 December 2013 13:14, Sally Morris sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.ukwrote: The few responses to my original posting have all focused on whether the 'credo' of the BBB declarations is or is not fundamental to the underlying concept of OA. I find it interesting that no one has commented at

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-12 Thread Penny Andrews
Sally, for many scholars (who do currently exist, not just in the future) textmining is their main research activity. Open licensing to do that unimpeded isn't some theoretical paradise, it's what they need right now to do their work. On Thursday, December 12, 2013, Sally Morris wrote: I agree

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-10 Thread Bosman, J.M.
december 2013 23:28 To: goal@eprints.org Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List One should never underestimate Jeffrey Beall's sense of humour... [:-)] And we all admire his capacity for predictions and categorizations. This said, I would love to hear about

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-10 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
Many thanks, Jeroen. I am asking around about ways to take up Beall's list and make it fully legitimate. It is a very useful list, but Beall's appears to have put himself in an untenable situation now, either by excess cleverness, or sheer awkwardness (no to say worse). Simply speaking, he has

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread brentier
WOW ! And we did praise that man...! Terrible... Le 9 déc. 2013 à 16:12, Stevan Harnad amscifo...@gmail.com a écrit : Beall, Jeffrey (2013) The Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access. TripleC Communication, Capitalism Critique Journal. 11(2): 589-597

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread Gerritsma, Wouter
Dear all. Has this article really been written by Jeffrey Beall? He has been victim of a smear campaign before! I don't see he has claimed this article on his blog http://scholarlyoa.com/ or his tweet stream @Jeffrey_Beall (which actually functions as his RSS feed). I really like to hear from

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
Interesting twist on a plot good enough to draw the attention of a revived Monty Python... Will the real Jeffrey Beall stand up? And, as a question to the whole community, if you had written such a paper, would you claim it? :-) Jean-Claude Guédon Le lundi 09 décembre 2013 à 21:14 +,

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread Beall, Jeffrey
, Wouter Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 2:14 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List Dear all. Has this article really been written by Jeffrey Beall? He has been victim of a smear campaign before! I

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread BAUIN Serge
(Successor of AmSci) Objet : [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List Wouter, Hello, yes, I wrote the article, I stand by it, and I take responsibility for it. I would ask Prof. Harnad to clarify one thing in his email below, namely this statement, OA is all

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread David Prosser
predicts. Jeffrey Beall From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Gerritsma, Wouter Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 2:14 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread Jan Velterop
From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Gerritsma, Wouter Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 2:14 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List Dear all. Has

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Beall, Jeffrey jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.eduwrote: I would ask Prof. Harnad to clarify one thing in his email below, namely this statement, OA is all an anti-capitlist plot. This statement's appearance in quotation marks makes it look like I wrote it in the

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
predicts. Jeffrey Beall From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Gerritsma, Wouter Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 2:14 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
: Monday, December 09, 2013 2:14 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List Dear all. Has this article really been written by Jeffrey Beall? He has been victim of a smear campaign

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread Gerritsma, Wouter
(Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List Wouter, Hello, yes, I wrote the article, I stand by it, and I take responsibility for it. I would ask Prof. Harnad to clarify one thing in his email below, namely this statement, OA is all

[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

2013-12-09 Thread Couture Marc
I'll let more notorious OA advocates (named or unnamed in the article) point out the many flaws and weaknesses in Beall's article (if they think it's worth the effort). What strikes me though is that it looks much more like an opinion piece than a scholarly paper; the distinction is important,