Open Access Publishing – USD 5000 is enough to remove your publisher’s name from Beall’s list – Support for Open Access Publishing

"I was surprised when one of our editors told me that the name of Ashdin Publishing is found in the list of 'Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers' (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/) and I was surprised because of the following reasons: The author did not just mention the criteria for determining predatory open-access publishers, but he insisted on mentioning the full names and details of the publishers as well. Some of these criteria, for determining predatory open-access publishers, can be applied on a huge number of publishers (include some of the large and famous ones), but he did not mention any of them. Some of the publishers names are removed from this list without saying the reasons for this removal ..."