Jeffrey Beall

Jeffrey Beall
Jeffrey Beall
	Beall in 2005
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

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]

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]

^ Deprez, Esmé E.; Chen, Caroline (August 29, 2017). "Medical Journals Have a Fake News Problem". Bloomberg. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
^ Beall, J. (2012). "Predatory publishers are corrupting open access". Nature. 489 (7415): 179. Bibcode:2012Natur.489..179B. doi:10.1038/489179a. PMID 22972258.
^ Beall, J. (2013). "Predatory publishing is just one of the consequences of gold open access" (PDF). Learned Publishing. 26 (2): 79–83. doi:10.1087/20130203. S2CID 12334948.
^ Beall, J. (June 1, 2018). "Invited comment: Predatory journals exploit structural weaknesses in scholarly publishing". 4open. 1: 1. doi:10.1051/fopen/2018001. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
^ Straumsheim, Carl (January 18, 2017). "No More 'Beall's List". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
^ In copies of the staff directory of Auraria Library archived in the Wayback Machine, the library listed Beall as Scholarly Communications Librarian on August 27, 2017, as Copyright and Information Access Librarian on March 7, 2018, and no longer listed Beall on April 30, 2018. See also his credentials reported in a 2014 interview: Pasquale, Cynthia (June 11, 2014). "Five questions for Jeffrey Beall". CU Connections. University of Colorado.
^ "Jeffrey Beall". Twitter. Retrieved April 10, 2022.