The community of science watchdogs has lost an important voice with the sudden and mysterious takedown of a website devoted to outing unscrupulous publishers. The site, Scholarly OA (for “open access” ...

In 2012, a librarian from the University of Colorado presented research in a field so new he had to name it himself: predatory publishing. Jeffrey Beall discovered thousands of online science journals ...

A widely read website that lists "potential, possible or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers" was wiped clean of all its content on 15 January — but its creator, Jeffrey Beall, won’t ...

This article initially appeared in the Society for Technical Communication Intercom Magazine, December 2018 and is used here with permission from both the publisher and the author. In early 2017, a ...

When librarian Jeffrey Beall shut down his controversial blog listing potentially ‘predatory’ scholarly publishers and journals last year, archived copies swiftly appeared elsewhere online. More than ...