Jeffrey Beall
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Beall in 2005
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | California State University, Northridge, Oklahoma State University, University of North Carolina |
| Occupation | Librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver |
| Known for | Criticism of predatory open access publishing |
| Website | Scholarly Open Access: scholarlyoa |
Jeffrey Beall is an American librarian. He is the scholarly initiatives librarian at Auraria Library, and an associate professor at the University of Colorado, Denver. He is a critic of the open access publishing movement and is especially known for his blog, Scholarly Open Access, which monitors "predatory open access publishing", a term he coined. Beall has also written on this topic in The Charleston Advisor, in Nature, and in Learned Publishing.
Beall has a bachelor's degree in Spanish from California State University, Northridge (1982), as well as an MA in English from Oklahoma State University (1987) and an MSc in library science from the University of North Carolina (1990). Until December 2012, Beall served on the editorial board of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. In that same year, he was awarded tenure by the University of Colorado Denver. In an interview with The Charleston Advisor in July 2013, Beall said that his biggest influence was Fred Kilgour.
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