Blacklists are technically infeasible, practically unreliable and unethical. Period.

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-01-30

Summary:

"It’s been a big weekend for poorly designed blacklists. But prior to this another blacklist was also a significant discussion. Beall’s list of so-called “Predatory” journals and publishers vanished from the web around a week ago. There is still not explanation for why, but the most obvious candidate is that legal action, threatened or real, was the cause of it being removed. Since it disappeared many listservs and groups have been asking what should be done? My answer is pretty simple. Absolutely nothing."

Link:

http://cameronneylon.net/blog/blacklists-are-technically-infeasible-practically-unreliable-and-unethical-period/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.predatory oa.bealls_list oa.comment oa.publishers oa.quality

Date tagged:

01/30/2017, 09:54

Date published:

01/30/2017, 04:54