Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Jeffrey Beall on “Predatory Open Access” | The Scholarly Kitchen
abernard102@gmail.com 2013-08-15
Summary:
"In this episode, we talk with librarian Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado, Denver — who maintains a celebrated scholarly publishing 'hall of shame,' the list of predatory open access publishers and journals and blogs regularly at scholarlyoa.com — about the inherent vulnerability of gold open access to scams and fraud, the potential pitfalls of article-level metrics, and where his research on the scholarly publishing environment is headed."