[BOAI] Re: Published today: Beall's List of Predatory Publishers 2013

[David Prosser]

'The entire scholarly publishing system is in danger of eroding due to the increasing influence of predatory publishing.'

How much influence does 'predatory publishing' represent?  What percentage of the total number of papers published in OA journals over the past year do the papers published in these journals represent? And what would the percentage need to be for us to seriously believe that the entire scholarly publishing system is in danger of eroding?

David



On 6 Dec 2012, at 17:48, Beall, Jeffrey wrote:

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> Today I am releasing the 2013 versions of my lists of predatory publishers and journals. Please seehttp://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/
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> This year's list of predatory publishers includes over 225 highly-questionable scholarly publishing operations. Last year's list included only 23 publishers, and the 2010 list had about 18.
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> This year's list of predatory stand-alone journals has 106 titles. (The previous year's list did not include stand-alone titles). I continuously updates these lists on my blog Scholarly Open Access, http://scholarlyoa.com, throughout the year.
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> The increase in predatory publishers from 18 to 225 in two years demonstrates the increasing scale of the problem. The entire scholarly publishing system is in danger of eroding due to the increasing influence of predatory publishing.
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> Sincerely,
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> 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.beall at ucdenver.edu
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