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Open access, power, and privilege: A response to “What I learned from predatory publishing”

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Shea Swauger

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

college and research libraries news

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281

H-Index - 23

eISSN - 2150-6698

pISSN - 0099-0086

DOI - 10.5860/crln.78.11.603

Subject(s) - privilege (computing) , publishing , power (physics) , library science , supervisor , sociology , political science , law , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics

In June 2017, Jeffrey Beall published an opinion piece in Biochemia Medica titled “What I Learned from Predatory Publishers.”1 While there are several elements of this publication that I find inaccurate or problematic, I’m choosing four specific themes within his piece to critique. In the interest of full disclosure, I am Jeffrey Beall’s direct supervisor at the University of Colorado-Denver’s Auraria Library and have been since I began working there in July 2015.

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