Jeffrey Beall
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Jeffrey Beall is an American librarian and library scientist, who drew attention to "predatory open access publishing", a term he coined,[1] and created Beall's list, a list of potentially predatory open-access publishers. He is a critic of the open access publishing movement and particularly how predatory publishers use the open access concept, and is known for his blog Scholarly Open Access. He has also written on this topic in The Charleston Advisor, in Nature,[2] in Learned Publishing,[3] and elsewhere.[4]
Jeffrey Beall | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | California State University, Northridge, Oklahoma State University, University of North Carolina |
Occupation | Librarian |
Known for | Criticism of predatory open access publishing |
When Beall created his list, he was employed as a librarian and associate professor[5] at the University of Colorado Denver. More recently, he was a librarian at Auraria Library in Denver.[6] He retired in 2018.[7]