Sad Ending; Jeffrey Beall’s Blog was shut down
peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-01-15
Summary:
"Today, it has come to our attention that Jeffrey Beall’s blog (https://scholarlyoa.com/) was shut down for an unknown reasons. It could be due to the legal action of the US government which adopted through a decision of a court or simply someone might have hacked it. Whatever it is, his attempt and movement, in general, have been questioned by leading scholars around the world and his personal views and opinion are not favored anymore. In lieu of this, people, universities and institutes would prefer to rely on consolidated lists released by organizations such as DOAJ, SCOPUS, Thomson Reuters, pubmed and other leading indexing services...."