From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:36:16 +0100

I too have corresponded with Beall and questioned him about various
decisions. He always answered courteously and often convincingly.


Contrary to what some of his enemies said he did make clear his criteria:
http://publica.upc.edu/sites/default/files/arxius_site/criteris_editorials_
fraudulentes.pdf.



I know that many librarians used both DOAJ and Beall as aids to advising
their patrons and why not both?



I stopped interacting with Beall when he made it clear that Open Access was
seen by him as an invention of “communist” Europeans and anti-American and
he denied any real arguments for this publishing model:
http://triplec.at.dd29412.kasserver.com/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525.


The open access movement is a broad church and there are of course those
involved who are “anti-corporatist” but there are plenty who are not and
there are many who accept the arguments for open access but did not think
it would work as a publishing model. This was my position.



Anthony