Interesting Podcast with Jeffrey Beall

Thanks to Tom Long, who brought this podcast to my attention via the INANE listserv. Stewart Wills of the Scholarly Kitchen interviews Jeffrey Beall, librarian the the University of Colorado, Denver who maintains the blog, Scholarly Open Access. Jeffrey is also going to be speaking at INANE 2014 in Portland, ME next summer.  From the website:

In this episode, we talk with librarian Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado, Denver — who maintains a celebrated scholarly publishing “hall of shame,” the list of predatory open access publishers and journals and blogs regularly at scholarlyoa.com — about the inherent vulnerability of gold open access to scams and fraud, the potential pitfalls of article-level metrics, and where his research on the scholarly publishing environment is headed.

Note that near the end of the podcast, Jeffrey mentions doing research on predatory journals in nursing–that is specifically for INANE. He is going to be on sabbatical at the beginning of 2014, doing research on predatory publishers and journals. He will be presenting his findings (among other things) at the conference.

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