From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:09:28 +0000

>Beall did not initiate this process!
>
>The work on new inclusion criteria for journals to be listed in the
>DOAJ started december 2012:

December 2012 did indeed come (as the DOAJ statement says) well before
Bohannon¹s piece in _Science_, but it came after a full year of Beall¹s
work exposing predatory publishers, many of whom were included in the
DOAJ. It¹s hard to believe that his work wasn¹t a major contributing
factor to DOAJ¹s decision to revamp its inclusion criteria. Beall deserves
a great deal of credit for bringing this problem to light ‹ and for
continuing to do so. And DOAJ, of course, also deserves credit for dealing
with the problem. The more forthrightly and less defensively it does so,
the better its image will be.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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