Yes indeed, that is spam. Beall is correct. It has nothing to do with being a big publisher or not. I think Jeffrey Beall has clearly spelt out the objective of his blog from the onset: ‘critical analysis of scholarly open access publishing’. Except of course, we are now asking him to start evaluating closed access journals alongside, which is, in my opinion, a different endeavour. Any other scientists/librarian can pick up the task of evaluating closed access journals if he so desire. I strongly believe every endeavour should have a roadmap, a clear-cut objective and that is what Beall’s blog has achieved. If the man wants to start analysing closed access journals as well, it is for him to decide. After all, none of us conceived this whole idea for him in the first place.
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