From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>

Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 07:20:05 +0000

Indeed. And the lives and livelihoods of some of people who worked for the publishers that were arbitrarily targeted by the list were affected. There is no excuse for harassment, but there must be an acknowledgement that Beall’s whims had negative consequences, consequences that we magnified by the importance we collectively gave to the list .

David

On 6 Jun 2017, at 23:58, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Aline Soules <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 21:56:29 -0700

Unfortunately, some of the journals on the list weren't predatory;
yet, in some tenure cases, publications were discounted because the
journal was on the list. If anyone picks up on this list again, I
hope the first thing the person does is check on the status of every
journal on the list. This affects people's work lives significantly.

Aline
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