From: Michelle Kraft <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 06:56:33 +0100

I guess I would take Beall more seriously if he didn't constantly and
personally attack those who offer different opinions. He is currently
attacking a well respected medical librarian where he called her an "anti
librarian" on Twitter. She stated that she thought the rising costs of
journals and shrinking budgets were more of a threat to libraries than
predatory publishers.

She never said predatory publishers weren't a problem, just other things
were more so in her opinion.

Beall's list was helpful but his propensity to personally attack anyone who
doesn't agree 100% with his view is not professional and continually
negates his work. Extremism by either side does not advance the dialogue
nor move us forward.

Michelle Kraft
Director Library Services
Cleveland Clinic Health System

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> On Jun 16, 2017, at 1:37 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:06:50 -0400
>
> Thank you for this comment, Colette. It seems to me to pretty much hit
> the bullseye.
>
> Joe Esposito
>
>
>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 6:48 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> From: Collette Mak <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 08:41:00 -0400
>>
>> thanks(!) for posting, I don't know how I missed that!
>>
>> There's no question that he comes across as a bitter, venom-spitting
curmudgeon in that opinion piece but it reminded me that we do owe him a
debt of gratitude for shining a spotlight on the very real issue of
predatory publishers and on the potential threat to the rigor of scholarly
publishing.  I disagree with him (and with the excellent LSE blog on
SciHub) that it's a failure of publishing.  I think it's more a failure of
promotion/tenure to have kept pace with a rapidly changing scholarly
communications environment. If you're going to be graded on publications
then people going to want to publish, Adam Smith's invisible hand is going
to meet that market demand.
>>
>> Guess it's my day to be the curmudgeon and, BTW, get off my lawn
>>
>> Collette
>>
>> Collette Mak
>> Outreach and Scholarly Communications Librarian
>> Hesburgh Libraries