Dear Jeffrey Beall
I have read your recent posting against OA publishers and would like to
express my personal opinions on your so called predatory fighting blog
1. You seem to plan to kill all OA publishers on infancy stage. Many motivated people may wish to start a good quality OA publishing firm but may have no good experience. You plan to prevent all these people having any progress.
2. Your most arguments are premature, just because an OA publisher publishes one or two plagiarized papers does not mean the publisher must be blacklisted. You just need to provide awareness and inform publishers on your website that scientific community does not like it and ask them to be more careful in future. Many OA publishers try to use free materials such as gmail to reduce their expenses, their website may have some broken links, they may not be familiar with more professional stuff
like having metadata for each article to promote their job, properly.
These issues do not mean they are unqualified to run a publishing firm.
3. I personally receive invitation from ELSEVIER to publish new
paper on their recently started journals and it does not mean ELSEVIER is
spamming me, but if a new OA invites me to submit my paper, I must
consider it predatory publisher, why?
4. There are many OA journals published by ELSEVIER, which are low quality, “Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences” is just an example of it. Why don’t you ever criticize journals which are published by big publishers? Do you have any financial relationship with them?
5. I wonder who pays your legal affairs, they must be rich enough to feed you well, Honestly, my gut feeling is telling me that you are hired by some people just to kill the entire OA publishers.
Finally, only time will tell us more about the nature of your job, many
OA publishers in your list will do well in my opinion and you will be
blamed by many for having many bias judgement. Be brave and provide response instead of just removing the entire message. Provide evidence that shows you are not hired by some people whose benefit has been jeopardized by emerge of OA publishers. I admit that some of OA publishers are criminals but your list contains many OA publishers who wish to build good quality work.
