Dave, your position is praiseworthy, but, I am afraid, you represent a tiny minority on the global scene. Please spend a solid day browsing through the papers of most of those journals of the publishers listed on Beall’s list, and I would estimate that most are emerging from developing countries. This is not about you or I being able to recognize the dirty bathwater, but rather about convincing the vast majority of scientists from developing countries that publishing in such journals is unhealthy for their curriculae and for science. The great problem at the moment is that many of them (most?) get full OA fee waivers for the classical “I’m poor from a poor country argument”, making sloppy peer review (or none at all), scamy and spammy e-mails a non-irritant for them. For them, they simply don’t care. They just want to see whatever it is they have produced in a year published in a PDF file. This is the real truth behind why the “corrupt” and non-academic OA movement will flourish and grow.
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