From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:19:39 +0100

I found the comments that followed Rick's sensible post disturbing. There
was little support and some (to my mind) unfounded criticisms. Beall is
doing a serious job in my view.

I happen to believe that open access journals should be judged on their
merits. At present it is clear to me (I have interviewed a lot of academics)
that the constant stream of invitations from the predatory journals are
causing many scholars to believe that there is something intrinsically wrong
with people paying to publish.

I hope that the OA establishment will be able to find some way to distance
themselves from the people setting up journals without proper peer review.

Anthony

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From: Bill Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 08:50:09 -0400

More notes on the lawsuit threat against Jeffrey Beal by the always-astute
Rick Anderson on today's Scholarly Kitchen blog.

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/05/20/high-noon-a-publisher-threaten
s-to-lunch-a-criminal-case-against-librarian-critic/

Rick notes the full-text of the threatening letter itself is posted with
Jeffrey's permission on InfoDocket:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/141670507/OMICS-Publishing-Notice-to-Jeffrey-Beall

Below are the posts made by Beall relating to this issue.

http://scholarlyoa.com/?s=perry

http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/02/12/omics-ineptly-uses-social-media-to-promote
-its-brands/

http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/01/25/omics-predatory-meetings/


Bill Cohen, Founding Publisher
The Haworth Press, Inc.