<div><br></div>Ciao a tutti, giro anche a voi<div><br></div><div>come prevedibile il coraggioso bibliotecario Beall che ha avuto appunto il coraggio di denunciare gli editori predatori... pubblicando la sua lista di Beall sta subendo degli attacchi</div>
<div>ciao antonella</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Suber</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.suber@gmail.com">peter.suber@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: 2012/12/18<br>Subject: [sparc-oaforum] Fwd: [SCHOLCOMM] Backlash against my blog<br>To: SOAF post <<a href="mailto:sparc-oaforum@arl.org">sparc-oaforum@arl.org</a>>, BOAI Forum post <<a href="mailto:boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk">boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>>, GOAL post <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>><br>
<br><br><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font>[Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list. --Peter Suber.]<br></font><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">I am the author of <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/" target="_blank">Scholarly Open Access</a>, a blog that includes lists of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent journals. <u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing, organized attempt to discredit me and my blog. <u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Specifically, I've been a victim of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing" target="_blank">email spoofing</a>, in which someone is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are not. <u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">One of the spoofed emails is an offer to "reevaluate" a publisher's presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to make it look like I am extorting money from publishers. <u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the spoofed email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An example is <a href="http://editormedicinalchemistry.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/jeffrey-beall-is-blackmailing-small-open-access-publishers-through-his-predatory-publishers-blog/" target="_blank">here</a>. <u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my work on various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names of people prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was in the comments section of my October <i>Nature</i> piece. The publisher has removed these spurious statements and closed further comments.<u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list are true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a criminal way. <u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried to learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I have tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not engaged in any of the activities that they are trying to frame me with.<u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Thanks for your understanding. <u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Jeffrey<u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left">
<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)">Scholarly Initiatives Librarian<br>Auraria Library<br>University of Colorado Denver<br>1100 Lawrence St.<br>Denver, Colo. 80204 USA<br><a href="tel:%28303%29%20556-5936" value="+13035565936" target="_blank">(303) 556-5936</a></span><span style="color:gray"><br>
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