<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">No, this is not the whole -- nor the end — of the story.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My prediction is that the take-down of Beall’s list was indeed a result of FUD threats and actions (to Beall and his institution) by the deep pockets profiting from predation on authors’ publish-or-perish pressures. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My hope is that a reliable service like it will indeed re-appear, with the collaboration of Jeffrey Beall (who has been something of a loose cannon, but on balance provided a valuable service).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My suspicion is that those trying to make hay out of this take-down are themselves predatorily inclined and perhaps even part of the FUD campaign to take him and his institution down.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Where there’s big bucks to be made, as in predatory “journal” publishing,” principles and scruples wither (with peer review the first to go)...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stevan Harnad</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 18, 2017, at 10:24 AM, Jihane Salhab <<a href="mailto:jderg011@uottawa.ca" class="">jderg011@uottawa.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class=""></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class=""> </font><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">FYI Beall’s list is removed. Check the following post: </font><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/mystery-controversial-list-predatory-publishers-disappears" target="_blank" class=""><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri" size="3" class="">Mystery as controversial list of predatory publishers disappears</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class=""> . </font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class=""></font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">A better option for authors to verify good publishers is </font><a href="http://thinkchecksubmit.org/" target="_blank" class=""><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri" size="3" class="">thinkchecksubmit.org</font></a><font face="Calibri" class=""><font size="3" class="">. In my opinion, it does a better job than Beall's controversial list, because it relies on authors’ own judgements.</font></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font><font size="3" class=""> “Think. Check. Submit. is a cross-industry initiative led by representatives from ALPSP, DOAJ, INASP, ISSN, LIBER, OASPA, STM, UKSG, and individual publishers.” </font></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class=""></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class=""></font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class=""><font size="3" class=""><font class=""><font face="Calibri" class="">Have a good day!</font></font></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class=""></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class=""></font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">Jihane Salhab</font></div></div></div>
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