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From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 14:11:29 -0700

Not sure how to feel about this one -- somebody's found a way to make
money by selling you information about people who are making money by
publishing sketchy journals.

The article may be behind the paywall in Nature:

http://www.nature.com/news/pay-to-view-blacklist-of-predatory-journals-set-to-launch-1.22090

Headline:  Pay-to-view blacklist of predatory journals set to launch:
Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be
objective and transparent — but not free.

First paragraphs:  The blacklist is dead; long live the blacklist.
Five months after a widely read blog listing possible ‘predatory’
scholarly journals and publishers was shut down, another index of
untrustworthy titles is appearing — although this version will be
available only to paying subscribers.

Scholarly-services firm Cabell’s International in Beaumont, Texas,
says that on 15 June it will launch its own list of predatory
journals: those that deceive their authors or readers, for example by
charging fees to publish papers without conducting peer review. The
firm described its work on 31 May, at the annual meeting of the
Society for Scholarly Publishing in Boston, Massachusetts.

Jim O'Donnell
ASU

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