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size=2 face=Arial>What I'm saying is that OA may have done itself a disservice
by adhering so rigidly to tight definitions. A more relaxed focus on the
end rather than the means might prove more appealing to the scholars for whose
benefit it is supposed to exist</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face=Arial>Sally</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sally Morris</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>South House, The Street, Clapham,
Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Tel: +44 (0)1903
871286</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Email:
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> goal-bounces@eprints.org
[mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>David
Prosser<BR><B>Sent:</B> 12 December 2013 08:37<BR><B>To:</B> Global Open Access
List (Successor of AmSci)<BR><B>Subject:</B> [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly
Compromises CredibilityofBeall's List<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Let me get this right, Jean-Claude mentioning the Budapest Open Access
Initiative to show that re-use was an integral part of the original definition
of open access and not some later ('quasi-religeous') addition as Sally avers.
And by doing so he is betraying some type of religious zeal? </DIV>
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<DIV>One of the interesting aspect of the open access debate has been the
language. Those who argue against OA have been keen to paint OA advocates
as 'zealots', extremists, and impractical idealists. I've always felt that
such characterisation was an attempt to mask the paucity of argument.</DIV>
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<DIV>On 11 Dec 2013, at 22:30, Sally Morris wrote:</DIV><BR
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=904442822-11122013><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>I actually think that J-C's response illustrates very
clearly how OA has been mistaken for a religion, with its very own
'gospel'. This, IMHO, is part of its problem!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face=Arial>Sally</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sally Morris</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>South House, The Street, Clapham,
Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Tel: +44 (0)1903
871286</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Email: <A
href="mailto:sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk">sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk</A></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</A>
[mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jean-Claude
Guédon<BR><B>Sent:</B> 10 December 2013 15:26<BR><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> [GOAL]
Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility ofBeall's
List<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>In response to Sally, I would remind her that re-use was part of
the original BOAI declaration. Scholars and teachers need more than
eye-contact with articles. So, this is not a secondary point. <BR><BR>The
immediacy issue concerns deposit; it is simply a pragmatic and obvious point:
capturing an article at time of acceptance is optimal for exposure and
circulation of information. If the publisher does not allow public exposure
and imposes an embargo - thus slowing down the circulation of knowledge -, the
private request button allows for eye contact, at least. This button solution
is not optimal, but it will do on a pragmatic scale so long as it is needed to
circumvent publishers' tactics.<BR><BR>Cost savings are not part of BOAI; it
is a request by administrators of research centres and their libraries. This
said, costs of OA publishing achieved by a platform such as Scielo are way
beneath the prices practised by commercial publishers (including non-profit
ones). And it should become obvious that if you avoid 45% profit rates, you
should benefit.<BR><BR>The distinction between "nice" and "nasty" publishers
is of unknown origin and I would not subscribe to it. More
fundamentally, we should ask and ask again whether scientific publishing
is meant to help scientific research, or the reverse. Seen from the former
perspective, embargoes appear downright absurd.<BR><BR>As for why OA has not
been widely accepted now, the answer is not difficult to find: researchers are
evaluated; the evaluation, strangely enough, rests on journal reputations
rather than on the intrinsic quality of articles. Researchers simply adapt to
this weird competitive environment as best they can, and do not want to
endanger their career prospects in any way. As a result, what counts for them
is not how good their work is, but rather <B>where</B> they can publish it.
Open Access, by stressing a return to intrinsic quality of work, implicitly
challenges the present competition rules. As such, it appears at best
uncertain or even threatening to researchers under career stress. So long as
evaluation rests on journal titles, the essential source of power within
scientific publishing will rest with the major international publishers. They
obviously believe research was invented to serve them!<BR><BR>The interesting
point about mega journals, incidentally, is that they are not really journals,
but publishing platforms. Giving an impact factor to PLoS One is stupid:
citation cultures vary from discipline to discipline, and the mix of
disciplines within PLoS One varies with time. Doing a simple average of the
citations of the whole is methodologically faulty: remember that scientists in
biomed disciplines quote about four times as much as mathematicians. What if,
over a certain period of time, the proportion of mathematical articles triples
for whatever reason? The raw impact factor will go down. Does this mean
anything in terms of quality? Of course not!<BR><BR>Jean-Claude
Guédon<BR><BR>Le mardi 10 décembre 2013 à 13:36 +0000, Sally Morris a écrit :
<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">At the risk (nay, certainty) of being pilloried by
OA conformists, let me say that – whatever ithe failings of his article – I
thank Jeffrey Beall for raising some fundamental questions which are rarely,
if ever, addressed.<BR><BR> <BR><BR>I would put them under two general
headings:<BR><BR> <BR><BR>1)
What is the objective of OA?<BR><BR> <BR><BR>I originally understood
the objective to be to make scholarly research articles, in some form,
accessible to all those who needed to read them. Subsequent
refinements such as 'immediately', 'published version' and 'free to reuse'
may have acquired quasi-religious status, but are surely secondary to
this main objective.<BR><BR> <BR><BR>However, two other, financial,
objectives (linked to each other, but not to the above) have gained
increasing prominence. The first is the alleged cost saving (or at
least cost shifting). The second - more malicious, and originally (but
no longer) denied by OA's main proponents - is the undermining of
publishers' businesses. If this were to work, we may be sure the
effects would not be choosy about 'nice' or 'nasty'
publishers.<BR><BR> <BR><BR>2)
Why hasn't OA been widely adopted by now?<BR><BR> <BR><BR>If – as we
have been repetitively assured over many years – OA is self-evidently the
right thing for scholars to do, why have so few of them done so
voluntarily? As Jeffrey Beall points out, it seems very curious that
scholars have to be forced, by mandates, to adopt a model which is
supposedly preferable to the existing one.<BR><BR> <BR><BR>Could it be
that the monotonous rantings of the few and the tiresome debates about the
fine detail are actually confusing scholars, and may even be putting them
off? Just asking ;-)<BR><BR> <BR><BR>I don't disagree that
the subscription model is not going to be able to address the problems we
face in making the growing volume of research available to those who need
it; but I'm not convinced that OA (whether Green, Gold or any
combination) will either. I think the solution, if there is one, still
eludes us.<BR><BR> <BR><BR>Merry Christmas!<BR><BR> <BR><BR>Sally
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE"><FONT size=2>Sally Morris</FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE"><FONT size=2>South House, The Street, Clapham,
Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU</FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE"><FONT size=2>Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286</FONT>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE"><FONT size=2>Email: <A
href="mailto:sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk">sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk</A></FONT>
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<BR><B><FONT size=2>From:</FONT></B><FONT size=2> <A
href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</A>
[mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] </FONT><B><FONT size=2>On Behalf Of
</FONT></B><FONT size=2>David Prosser</FONT><BR><B><FONT
size=2>Sent:</FONT></B><FONT size=2> 09 December 2013
22:10</FONT><BR><B><FONT size=2>To:</FONT></B><FONT size=2> Global Open
Access List (Successor of AmSci)</FONT><BR><B><FONT
size=2>Subject:</FONT></B><FONT size=2> [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly
Compromises Credibility ofBeall's List</FONT><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">'Lackeys'? This is going beyond parody. </BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">David </BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">On 9 Dec 2013, at 21:45, Beall, Jeffrey wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">Wouter, </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">Hello, yes, I wrote the article, I stand by it,
and I take responsibility for it. </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">I would ask Prof. Harnad to clarify one thing in
his email below, namely this statement, "OA is all an anti-capitlist
plot." </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">This statement's appearance in quotation marks
makes it look like I wrote it in the article. The fact is that this
statement does not appear in the article, and I have never written such a
statement. </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">Prof. Harnad and his lackeys are responding just
as my article predicts. </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">Jeffrey Beall </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE"><B>From:</B> <FONT color=#0000ff><A
href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</A></FONT> [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Gerritsma, Wouter<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December
09, 2013 2:14 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Global Open Access List (Successor of
AmSci)<BR><B>Subject:</B> [GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly
Compromises Credibility of Beall's List </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">Dear all. </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">
<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">Has this article really been written by Jeffrey
Beall? </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">He has been victim of a smear campaign before!
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">I don’t see he has claimed this article on his
blog <FONT color=#0000ff><A
href="http://scholarlyoa.com/">http://scholarlyoa.com/</A></FONT> or
his tweet stream @Jeffrey_Beall (which actually functions as his RSS
feed). </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">I really like to hear from the man himself on his
own turf. </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">Wouter </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE"><B>From:</B> <FONT color=#0000ff><A
href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</A></FONT> [<FONT
color=#0000ff><A
href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org</A></FONT>] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Stevan Harnad<BR><B>Sent:</B> maandag 9 december
2013 16:04<BR><B>To:</B> Global Open Access List (Successor of
AmSci)<BR><B>Subject:</B> [GOAL] Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises
Credibility of Beall's List </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">Beall, Jeffrey (2013) <FONT color=#0000ff><A
href="http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514">The
Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access</A></FONT>. TripleC
Communication, Capitalism & Critique Journal. 11(2):
589-597 <FONT color=#0000ff><A
href="http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514">http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514</A></FONT>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">This wacky article is going to be fun to review. I
still think Jeff Beall is doing something useful with his naming and
shaming of junk OA journals, but I now realize that he is driven by some
sort of fanciful conspiracy theory! "OA is all an anti-capitlist plot."
(Even on a quick skim it is evident that Jeff's article is rife with
half-truths, errors and downright nonsense. Pity. It will diminish the
credibility of his valid exposés, but maybe this is a good thing, if the
judgment and motivation behind Beall's list is as kooky as this article!
But alas it will now also give the genuine "predatory" junk-journals some
specious arguments for discrediting Jeff's work altogether. Of course it
will also give the publishing lobby some good sound-bites, but they use
them at their peril, because of all the other nonsense in which they are
nested!) </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE">Before I do a critique later today), I want to
post some tidbits to set the stage: </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><B><I>JB: </I></B><I>"</I><I><B>ABSTRACT</B></I><I>:
While the open-access (OA) movement purports to be about making
scholarly content open-access, its true motives are much different. The
OA movement is an anti-corporatist movement that wants to deny the
freedom of the press to companies it disagrees with. The movement is
also actively imposing onerous mandates on researchers, mandates that
restrict individual freedom. To boost the open-access movement, its
leaders sacrifice the academic futures of young scholars and those from
developing countries, pressuring them to publish in lower-quality
open-access journals. The open-access movement has fostered the
creation of numerous predatory publishers and standalone journals,
increasing the amount of research misconduct in scholarly publications
and the amount of pseudo-science that is published as if it were
authentic science."</I> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><B><I>JB: </I></B><I>"[F]rom their high-salaried
comfortable positions…OA advocates... demand that for-profit, scholarly
journal publishers not be involved in scholarly publishing and devise
ways (such as green open-access) to defeat and eliminate them...</I>
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arguments to lobby for mandates, focusing only on the supposed economic
benefits of open access and ignoring the value additions provided by
professional publishers. The arguments imply that publishers are not
really needed; all researchers need to do is upload their work, an
action that constitutes publishing, and that this act results in a
product that is somehow similar to the products that professional
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really about open access. Instead, it is about collectivizing production
and denying the freedom of the press from those who prefer the
subscription model of scholarly publishing. It is an anti-corporatist,
oppressive and negative movement, one that uses young researchers and
researchers from developing countries as pawns to artificially force the
make-believe gold and green open-access models to work. The movement
relies on unnatural mandates that take free choice away from individual
researchers, mandates set and enforced by an onerous cadre of
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failed social movement and a false messiah, but its promoters refuse to
admit this. The emergence of numerous predatory publishers – a product
of the open-access movement – has poisoned scholarly communication,
fostering research misconduct and the publishing of pseudo-science, but
OA advocates refuse to recognize the growing problem. By instituting a
policy of exchanging funds between researchers and publishers, the
movement has fostered corruption on a grand scale. Instead of arguing
for openaccess, we must determine and settle on the best model for the
distribution of scholarly research, and it's clear that neither green
nor gold open-access is that model...</I>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><B><I>JB: </I></B><I>"Open access advocates think they
know better than everyone else and want to impose their policies on
others. Thus, the open access movement has the serious side-effect of
taking away other's freedom from them. We observe this tendency in
institutional mandates. Harnad (2013) goes so far as to propose
[an]…Orwellian system of mandates… documented [in a] table of mandate
strength, with the most restrictive pegged at level 12, with the
designation "immediate deposit + performance evaluation (no waiver
option)". This Orwellian system of mandates is documented in Table 1...
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<BLOCKQUOTE><B><I>JB: </I></B><I>"A social movement that needs
mandates to work is doomed to fail. A social movement that uses mandates
is abusive and tantamount to academic slavery. Researchers need more
freedom in their decisions not less. How can we expect and demand
academic freedom from our universities when we impose oppressive
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