Nine months after a dogged academic librarian quietly deleted his carefully tended list shaming more than a thousand scientific journals as unscrupulous, the Beall’s List Murder Mystery remains ...

BOB GARFIELD: With a deeper look into medical journals, periodicals that influence what your doctor prescribes and affect your own well-being. It used to be that libraries, mostly college libraries, ...

In 2012, a librarian from the University of Colorado presented research in a field so new he had to name it himself: predatory publishing. Jeffrey Beall discovered thousands of online science journals ...

An academic librarian’s lists of “predatory” journals and publishers on Sunday vanished from the internet without explanation. His business partners now say he was forced to shut down the website.

Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall runs the popular industry blog Scholarly Open Access. The site maintains a list of open-access journals and publishers that Beall believes engage in predatory ...

But this new resource fails to address a lingering criticism of such blacklists. “One of the objections that people sometimes had to Beall’s list was, ‘We don’t need to identify and call out the ...

When librarian Jeffrey Beall shut down his controversial blog listing potentially ‘predatory’ scholarly publishers and journals last year, archived copies swiftly appeared elsewhere online. More than ...