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Jeffrey Beall

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#4331

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#899

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#10405

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#1366

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Jeffrey Beall's Degrees

Masters Library Science University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelors English University of Northern Colorado

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According to Wikipedia, Jeffrey Beall is an American librarian and library scientist, who drew attention to "predatory open access publishing", a term he coined, and created Beall's list, a list of potentially predatory open-access publishers. He is a critic of the open access publishing movement and particularly how predatory publishers use the open access concept, and is known for his blog Scholarly Open Access. He has also written on this topic in The Charleston Advisor, in Nature, in Learned Publishing, and elsewhere.

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Predatory publishers are corrupting open access (2012) (625)
What I learned from predatory publishers (2017) (163)
Medical Publishing Triage – Chronicling Predatory Open Access Publishers (2013) (106)
“Predatory” Open-Access Scholarly Publishers (2010) (104)
Predatory publishing is just one of the consequences of gold open access (2013) (103)
Ban predators from the scientific record (2016) (102)
Dangerous Predatory Publishers Threaten Medical Research (2016) (100)
Best practices for scholarly authors in the age of predatory journals. (2016) (88)
The Weaknesses of Full-Text Searching. (2008) (80)
The Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access (2013) (77)
Spurious alternative impact factors: The scale of the problem from an academic perspective (2015) (67)
Metadata and Data Quality Problems in the Digital Library (2005) (57)
Essential Information about Predatory Publishers and Journals (2016) (53)
Predatory journals and the breakdown of research cultures (2015) (49)
Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers (2010) (31)
Debasing the Currency of Science: The Growing Menace of Predatory Open Access Journals (2016) (26)
Predatory Journals Threaten the Quality of Published Medical Research (2017) (26)
Medical publishing and the threat of predatory journals (2016) (25)
The Effectiveness of Copy Cataloging at Eliminating Typographical Errors in Shared Bibliographic Records (2004) (23)
Measuring Typographical Errors' Impact on Retrieval in Bibliographic Databases (2007) (22)
Developing an Interactive Illustration: Using Java and the Web to Make It Worthwhile (1999) (20)
Predatory journals exploit structural weaknesses in scholarly publishing (2018) (20)
Pharmacy research and predatory journals: Authors beware. (2016) (20)
Free Books: Loading Brief MARC Records for Open-Access Books in an Academic Library Catalog (2009) (19)
Unethical Practices in Scholarly, Open-Access Publishing (2013) (17)
Dublin Core: An Obituary (2004) (17)
Avoiding the Peril of Publishing Qualitative Scholarship in Predatory Journals. (2013) (17)
Five Predatory Mega-Journals: A Review (2013) (16)
Advice for Plagiarism Whistleblowers (2014) (16)
Predatory Publishers and Opportunities for Scholarly Societies (2012) (16)
Writer's Forum — Predatory Journals, Peer Review, and Education Research (2017) (15)
The impact of vendor records on cataloging and access in academic libraries (2000) (15)
Scientific Soundness and the Problem of Predatory Journals (2018) (14)
Five Scholarly Open Access Publishers (2012) (13)
The "Metric" System: Yet More Chaos in Scholarly Publishing. (2015) (13)
Unintended Consequences: The Rise of Predatory Publishers and the Future of Scholarly Publishing (2014) (12)
Predatory Publishers Threaten to Erode Scholarly Communication (2013) (12)
OPEN ACCESS, RESEARCH COMMUNITIES, AND A DEFENSE AGAINST PREDATORY JOURNALS (2021) (12)
Geographical research and the problem of variant place names in digitized books and other full-text resources (2010) (11)
Measuring the Extent of the Synonym Problem in Full-Text Searching (2008) (10)
God of the gaps: a neglected reply to God’s stone problem (2017) (10)
How Google Uses Metadata to Improve Search Results (2010) (9)
Predatory publishers: Implications for pharmacy practice and practitioners (2017) (8)
The Proportion of NUC Pre-56 Titles Represented in OCLC WorldCat (2005) (8)
The Death of Metadata (2006) (8)
Internet Resources in Rare Diseases (2001) (8)
Cataloging world wide web sites consisting mainly of links (1997) (8)
Internet Scientific Publications (2011) (8)
Ethnic groups and Library of Congress subject headings (2006) (8)
RePAIR consensus guidelines: Responsibilities of Publishers, Agencies, Institutions, and Researchers in protecting the integrity of the research record (2018) (6)
Metadata for Name Disambiguation and Collocation (2010) (6)
Academic Library Databases and the Problem of Word-Sense Ambiguity (2011) (6)
Some Reservations about FRBR (2006) (5)
Scholarly Open‐Access Publishing (2019) (5)
Describing the Foreign Language Skills of Catalogers in Academic Libraries (1992) (5)
Behind the Spam: A “Spectral Analysis” of Predatory Publishers (2015) (4)
Next-Generation Library Catalogs and the Problem of Slow Response Time (2010) (4)
Discrete Criteria for Selecting and Comparing Metadata Schemes (2013) (4)
Measuring duplicate metadata records in library databases (2010) (4)
Using OCLC Connexion to find typographical errors in authority records (2004) (4)
Scholarly open-access publishing and the problem of predatory publishers (4)
Corrupt and Questionable Practices in the Scholarly Publishing Industry (2014) (3)
Response to “Beyond Beall’s List” (2015) (3)
Indexing Form and Genre Terms in a Large Academic Library OPAC: The Harvard Experience (2000) (3)
Considering presenting a paper at a scholarly conference? Choose carefully (2015) (2)
Publishers' Errors Make Catalogers [sic]: An Analysis of the Error Indicators [sic] and [i.e.] in Cataloging (2001) (2)
Cataloguing names the old-fashioned way. (2009) (2)
The value of alphabetically-sorted browse displays in information discovery (2007) (2)
Humanities Research, Book Digitization, and the Problem of Linguistic Change (2011) (1)
Internet Scientific Publications [electronic resource review] (2011) (1)
Open Access Week 2013: Protect your Patrons from Predatory Publishers (2013) (1)
Abbreviations, Full Spellings, and Searchers’ Preferences (2011) (1)
How the scientific journal came of age in the nineteenth century (2018) (1)
How successful is copy cataloging at catching and fixing typographical errors in records imported from bibliographic utilities (2003) (1)
Dublin Core is still dead (2014) (1)
Repurposing MARC Data: Some Pitfalls (2007) (1)
The Future of Scholarly Communication, edited by Deborah Shorley and Michael Jubb (review) (2014) (1)
Metadata Schemes Points of Comparison © 2006 (2006) (1)
10 Ways to Improve Data Quality (2005) (0)
Metadata Schemes Points of Comparison (2006) (0)
Brochures/Reviews/Reports (2017) (0)
Let's review everything (2010) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Lazerow Fellowship recipients research copy cataloging and electronic resources management systems (2003) (0)
How the scientific journal came of age in the nineteenth century (2018) (0)
Introduction: Bibliographic Database Quality (2008) (0)
OCLC: A Review (2008) (0)
Next-Generation LibraryCatalogs and the Problem ofSlow Response Time (2010) (0)
A defense of materialism against attacks based on qualia (1998) (0)
Science Communication and the Threat of Predatory Publishers (2013) (0)
3 "Principles of transparency" to help authors assess journal credibility (2014) (0)
Guaranteed hits: How to make your library’s Web site stand out in Web search engines (2019) (0)
Scholarly Communication, Open Access, and South America (2016) (0)
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION (2008) (0)
Catalog or Catalogue?: Examining a Library Dilemma (2004) (0)
Table of Contents. (2015) (0)

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