Librarian vs. (Open Access) Predator: An Interview with Jeffrey Beall

People Profile: Jeffrey Beall

Open Access 2012: achievements, further steps, and obstacles. An interview with Stevan Harnad. Interview by E. Giglia.

On the occasion of Open Access Week (22-­‐ 28 October) I had a talk with Stevan Harnad, a pioneer and one of the world's best-­‐ known Open Access advocates, author of the Subversive proposal (1994-­‐1995) which triggered the whole movement. Professor Harnad highlights achievements, further steps, and obstacles ten years aTer the Open Access manifesto of the Budapest Open Access IniVaVve. _____...

The Principle and the Pragmatist : On Conflict and Coalescence for Librarian Engagement with Open Access Initiatives

This article considers Open Access (OA) training and the supports and structures in place in academic libraries in the United States from the perspective of a new librarian. OA programming is contextualized by the larger project of Scholarly Communication in academic libraries, and the two share a historical focus on journal literature and a continued emphasis on public access and the economics...

Predatory publishing and you.

Once upon a time there was an academic librarian at the University of Colorado who led a quiet librarian life until the day he noticed predators in the midst of scholarly publishing. Jeffrey Beall discovered, studied, revealed, and blogged about what he would eventually name Predatory Publishing. His Web site, Scholarly Open Access (http:// scholarlyoa.com), is an increasingly important source ...

Leading the charge in leptin research: an interview with Jeffrey Friedman