[GOAL] Re: Need for a new beginning

[Beall, Jeffrey]

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: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Éric Archambault
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 7:38 AM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci <goal at eprints.org>
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
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20151002/40bfefcd/attachment.html