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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>[Please excuse duplicate postings]</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Today I am releasing the 2013 versions of my lists of predatory publishers and journals. Please see <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/">http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>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 <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Scholarly Open Access</span></a>, <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://scholarlyoa.com</span></a>, throughout the year. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:#262626'>Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:#262626'>Scholarly Initiatives Librarian<br>Auraria Library<br>University of Colorado Denver<br>1100 Lawrence St.<br>Denver, Colo. 80204 USA<br>(303) 556-5936</span><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:gray'><br></span><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:blue'><a href="jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu"><span style='color:blue'>jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu</span></a></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=325 height=48 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CDD39F.27806880" alt="Description: Description: http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/departments/oiuc/brand/downloads/branddownloads/branddocuments/Logos-E-mail%20Signatures/emailSig_2campus.png"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>