Pieta Eklund vid Bibliotek & läranderesurser, Högskolan i Borås har utarbetat en guide för att bedöma open access-tidskrifter:
Open Access och tveksamma förlag: En guide och stöd i att bedöma open access-tidskrifter [PDF]
Pieta presenterar själv bakgrunden till publikationen på högskolans blogg.
Vi som arbetar med att främja open access tackar förstås för denna insats!
// Ulf Kronman
Klipp ur RichardPoynders intervju med Ahmed Hindawi :
To his credit, Beall generally responds to critics. As a result, he has occasionally removed publishers from his list when persuaded that they are not in reality “predatory”.12 And in August this year he published a set of criteria he had drawn up to assist him make more objective assessments of new OA publishers he came across. This, however, has attracted even sharper criticism — with many complaining that the criteria are far too disparate and subjective to provide either a useful or an accurate way of separating the wheat from the chaff.
David Solomon, a professor in the department of medicine at Michigan State University,13 responded acerbically, “I think you have made your point but it is either time to do something constructive or quit this nonsense.”
He added, “What irks me is that in my view you seem to be very cavalier about using an ugly term like predatory. There are publishers who deserve it but I think you ought to be a lot more careful about using it.”
http://www.richardpoynder.co.uk/Hindawi_Interview.pdf
Jan