From: Jean-Claude Guédon <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:28:08 -0400 The last sentence of Rick Anderson's intervention is obviously true. I simply wonder why it even came up. Lars Bjornshauge has been nothing but forthright, and defending a particular take on who did what when, etc. is not the same as being "defensive". Jean-Claude Guédon Professeur titulaire Littérature comparée Université de Montréal Le mercredi 13 août 2014 à 03:36 -0400, LIBLICENSE a écrit : 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. --- Rick Anderson Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections Marriott Library, University of Utah [log in to unmask]