Jeffrey Beall

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Jeffrey Beall (2005)

Jeffrey Beall is a retired American librarian . He is an expert in internal science communication and bibliographical metadata and became known to a broader scientific community and the general public primarily through his controversial list on which he listed "predatory publishers" that he identified as such ("Beall's list" of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers ").

Professional career

Beall grew up in California and earned a bachelor's degree in Spanish from California State University in Northridge in 1982 and a master's degree in English from Oklahoma State University in 1987 before earning a master's degree in library science from the University of North Carolina in 1990 . From 1990 to 2000 he was a cataloger at the Widener Library at Harvard University . From 2000 he was finally a librarian at the Auraria Library at the University of Colorado in Denver .

In 2010 he published a list of allegedly unfairly working open access publishers for the first time, and from 2012 he kept this list and other similar lists on his new website Scholarly Open Access - Critical analysis of scholarly open access publishing . In January 2017, according to his own statements, under pressure from his employer, the University of Colorado, he effectively emptied the entire website. The domain scholarlyoa.com was sold for around $ 9,400 in April 2018. Beall retired in March 2018.

During his time at Auraria in particular, Beall published numerous specialist articles in the field of library science and science communication, in 2009 for the first time also on the subject of “predatory publishers”. Even after his retirement, he continues to publish scientifically about and conduct public relations work against the partial abuse of the open access model.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jeffrey Beall: List of Publishers. Beall's List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers. ( Memento from January 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Scholarly Open Access - Critical analysis of scholarly open access publishing (since January 2017 actually offline)
  2. ↑ Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva: Jeffrey Beall's “predatory” lists must not be used: they are biased, flawed, opaque and inaccurate. Bibliothecae.it. Vol. 6, No. 1, 2017, pp. 425-436, doi: 10.6092 / issn.2283-9364 / 7044
  3. ↑ a b Jeffrey Beall: Curriculum Vitae. PDF document on the Auraria Library website, Denver 2017, accessed August 1, 2018
  4. ↑ Cynthia Pasquale: Five questions for Jeffrey Beall - Auraria librarian shines light on shady academic publishers. CU Connections (University of Colorado online news and information portal), June 12, 2014 issue, accessed August 1, 2018
  5. ↑ a b Shyamlal Yadav: Jeffrey Beall: 'Predatory publishers threaten scientific integrity, are embarrassment to India.' The Indian Express, June 18, 2018 (last update June 20), accessed August 1, 2018
  6. ↑ a b Jeffrey Beall: What I learned from predatory publishers. Biochemia Medica. Vol. 27, No. 2, 2017, 273-279, Link
  7. ↑ Chat.chat Sold for $ 20,000; Scholarlyoa.com for $ 9,371 ... namePros.com, April 6, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018
  8. ↑ Jeffrey Beall: Predatory journals exploit structural weaknesses in scholarly publishing. 4open. Vol. 1, 2018, item no. 1, doi: 10.1051 / fopen / 2018001
personal data
SURNAME Beall, Jeffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American librarian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century