Open access critic has major publisher in crosshairs - eCampus News | eCampus News

"Open access journal publisher MDPI...has been added to Jeffrey Beall’s list of “predatory” publishers....Shu-Kun Lin, president of MDPI, said the publisher’s sponsoring of the Scientific Spirit Prize in China, awarded by an organization called New Threads, has led to an organized defamation attempt by those who oppose New Thread’s chair, Shi-min Fang. Fang is well-known for his attempts at discrediting pseudoscience and academic fraud in China...."