Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Rory McGreal

The problem is with the “gold” open access model itself. It is an encouragement for them to profit from faculty who are not being careful about where they publish. This is a faulty revenue model in any case. Why would institutions 1. Donate works for free; 2 Then pay for the privilege of so doing. 3. Then 3 Pay again to purchase rights to the database.
This model is worse than the present donate and buy back model. At least you don’t pay twice.
Rory