Academic Publishing, Beall's list, Featured, open access, open science, predatory publishers, publishing blacklist, publishing whitelist
Blacklists are technically infeasible, practically unreliable and unethical. Period.
The removal of the Beall’s list of predatory publishers last month caused consternation and led to calls in some quarters for a new equivalent to be put in its place. Cameron Neylon explains why he has never been a supporter of the Beall’s list and outlines why he believes the concept of the blacklist itself is fundamentally flawed. Not only […]