Discussion reveals challenges in identifying predatory publishers post Beall's List, indicating a significant gap in open-access oversight.
It's now been widely discussed that Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory and questionable open-access publishers — Beall's List for short — has suddenly and abruptly gone away. No-one really knows why, but there are rumblings that he has been hit with a legal threat that he doesn't want to defend.
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