I sent this email on this topic to another list and I hope this answers
your question.
PREDATORY JOURNALS : DIRECTORIES: Beall's List No Longer Online
Except..... Also Adding Terms to a Search Can Improve Search
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PREDATORY JOURNALS :
DIRECTORIES:
Beall's List No Longer Online Except.....
Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
Why did Bealls List of potential predatory publishers go dark?
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/01/17/
bealls-list-potential-predatory-publishers-go-dark/
OR
http://tinyurl.com/h3695kr
Jeffrey Beall, the University of Colorado Denver librarian who has since
2008 chronicled potential, possible, or probable predatory publishers, has
at least for now pulled the plug on his influential, and at times
controversial, site.
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The decision to take down the site and Bealls faculty page at the Auraria
Library, where he remains a tenured associate professor was his own, the
University of Colorado Denver tells Retraction Watch.
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The site, scholarlyoa.com, which just earlier this month included a list
of more than 1,000 such publishers, now contains no information. The
sudden change was noted Sunday on Twitter, where questions about the move
catalogued, along with some answers, by Emil Karlsson swirled for two
days. Bealls faculty page was also taken down.
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Some of the speculation surrounded Cabells, a publishing services company
that had earlier announced it would house a publisher blacklist beginning
sometime this year. Cabells, however, said it was not involved in the
closure, and that it supported Beall. Cabells tweets also hinted at legal
threats, which Beall has faced in the past.
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The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
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Controversial website that lists predatory publishers shuts down
Librarian Jeffrey Beall wont say why he has unpublished his widely read
blog.
Andrew Silver
18 January 2017 Corrected: 18 January 2017
Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/controversial-website-that-
lists-predatory-publishers-shuts-down-1.21328
OR
http://tinyurl.com/zp3v59s
My blog is now unpublished, said Beall, an academic librarian at the
University of Colorado, Denver (UCD). He added that he couldnt give
reasons and declined to comment further.
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Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing
A spokeswoman for UCD said that Beall made a personal decision to close
down his blog, and that Beall is still employed on the universitys
faculty. In a statement, the university added that Beall would no longer
maintain or publish his research on open-access journals and predatory
publishers.
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Bealls profile page on his employers website has also been emptied, as has
a Facebook page that he used to publicise his list.
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Since 2010, Beall has single-handedly listed thousands of open-access
journals that he says exploit or deceive authors by charging fees to
publish papers without providing expected publishing services such as peer
review, archiving and editing.
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The lists importance is tremendous, says Rick Anderson, an associate dean
in the library at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. There really
are predators out there running scholarly-communication scams, and Beall
has been the only person willing to call them out. Anderson says he fears
the list was taken down because of legal threats.
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However
Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/
20170111172306/https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
OR
http://tinyurl.com/hwh7473
LIST OF PUBLISHERS
Bealls List:
Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access
publishers
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This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. We
recommend that scholars read the available reviews, assessments and
descriptions provided here, and then decide for themselves whether they
want to submit articles, serve as editors or on editorial boards. In a
few cases, non-open access publishers whose practices match those of
predatory publishers have been added to the list as well. The criteria for
determining predatory publishers are here.
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We hope that tenure and promotion committees can also decide for
themselves how importantly or not to rate articles published in these
journals in the context of their own institutional standards and/or
geocultural locus. We emphasize that journal publishers and journals
change in their business and editorial practices over time. This list is
kept up-to-date to the best extent possible but may not reflect sudden,
unreported, or unknown enhancements.
1088 Email Press
2425 Publishers
The 5th Publisher
ABC Journals
A M Publishers
Abhinav
Academe Research Journals
Academia Publishing
Academia Research
Academia Scholarly Journals (ASJ)
Academic and Business Research Institute
Academic and Scientific Publishing
Academic Direct Publishing House
Academic Journals
Academic Journals and Research ACJAR
Academic Journals Online (AJO)
Academic Journals, Inc.
Academic Knowledge and Research Publishing
Academic Organization for Advancement of Strategic and International
Studies (Academic OASIS)
Academic Publications, Ltd.
Academic Research in Science, Engineering, Art and Management (ARSEAM)
Academic Research Journals
Academic Research Publishers (ARPUB)
etc.
links for these titles appear to be usefully clickable based on a small
sample.
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More about Beall's List
https://www.google.com/#q=%22Beall%E2%80%99s+List%22
http://tinyurl.com/hhalojb
http://tinyurl.com/jnuqjjf
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WEBBIB1617
http://tinyurl.com/hetcykm
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New
FOOD DRINK NUTRITION DIET :
GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS:
FOOD STAMPS :
DATABASE SEARCH RESULTS :
NUTRITION :
BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
Database Search Results for Food Stamps and Nuttrition
This post requires some explanation. On an internet discussion group, the
topic of food stamps impacts on nutrition was discussed and a link to an
article in the Washington Post on this topic was shared. The topic was
framed under the concepts of healthy meals and food stamps. I came up
with four phrases for healthy meals including healthy foods, nutritious
foods and nutritious meals in addition to the original phrase. I shared
links to several database search results for this topic. I had a brain
storm and realized that I could have used the word nutrition as well.
Adding this word hugely increased the number of sources found. This post
contains both sets of searches so that any interested in who search
terminology can change search results will have a number of examples to
explore and the second search lists over twenty examples of sources found
with two of these searches. The links provided with each found and shared
source lead to a Google Scholar or Google Books search of that sources
title.
View the complete post here
http://tinyurl.com/juuehoh
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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http://workface.com/e/daviddillard
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Temple University and Google Sites Research Guides
AND Discussion Group Directory
http://tinyurl.com/ngda2hk
OR
https://sites.google.com/site/researchguidesonsites/
FAKE NEWS
http://guides.temple.edu/fake
RESEARCH PAPER WRITING
http://guides.temple.edu/research-papers
EMPLOYMENT
http://guides.temple.edu/employment-guide
INTERNSHIPS
http://guides.temple.edu/employment-internships
DISABILITIES AND EMPLOYMENT
http://guides.temple.edu/c.php?g=134557
PUBLIC HEALTH RESOURCES INCLUDING EBOLA
http://guides.temple.edu/public-health-guide
STATISTICS SOURCES RESEARCH GUIDE
http://guides.temple.edu/statistics-sources
Social Work and Social Issues Discussion Group
https://groups.io/g/social-work
Digital Scholarship Discussion Group
https://groups.io/g/DigitalScholarship/threads
https://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=DIGITAL-SCHOLARSHIP
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/digital-scholarship/info
https://digitalscholarshipandscholarlypublication.wordpress.com/
Copyright Research Guide
Copyright, Intellectual Property and Plagiarism Sources
http://guides.temple.edu/copyright-plagiarism
Fair Use
http://guides.temple.edu/fair-use
Blog
https://educatorgold.wordpress.com/
Articles by David Dillard
https://sites.google.com/site/daviddillardsarticles/
Information Literacy (Russell Conwell Guide)
http://tinyurl.com/78a4shn
Twitter: davidpdillard
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Jon Brassey wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The Beall's list of potential predatory publishers has been taken offline for reasons unknown. For those that don't know:
>
> "Predatory journals can engage in a large number of suspicious activities, such as deceptive journal name, sending massive
> spam requests to authors and reviewers, falsely claiming to have a higher credibility than they have based on common journal
> metrics, publish a lot of fake content, do not engage in peer review despite claiming to etc."
> (https://debunkingdenialism.com/2017/01/16/what-happened-to-jeffrey-bealls-list-of-allegedly-predatory-publishers/)
>
> Retraction Watch have also published an article on the topic.
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> Reading Twitter the main reason given for the removal was threats of legal action or pressure from his University.
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> I can't help feeling this is a vital resource to help combat fake content (and therefore dodgy evidence). I'm wondering if
> people out there have got any ideas about re-creating this list in a way that makes it immune from possible legal threats?
> As well as providing a 'safe' place to store this information there needs to be consideration of maintaining it as well
> (wiki-style community contributions spring to mind) to ensure new 'fake' sources are identified.
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> I can't help feeling others (perhaps not even in healthcare) will be having similar conversations, so if anyone knows of any
> do let me know.
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> Best wishes
>
> jon
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> PS the list is still available via a web archive
> https://web.archive.org/web/20170111172306/https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
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>
> --
> Jon Brassey
> Director, Trip Database
> Honorary Fellow at CEBM, University of Oxford
> Creator, Rapid-Reviews.info
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