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According to the acts/laws of Indian Government as Section 66A of the IT Act which is a relevant section penalizing ‘sending false and offensive messages through communication services’.
The section reads as a person involved in sending offensive messages like
• any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; or
• any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such computer resource or a communication device,
• any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages.
Mr.Beall may serve scientific society with his blog on predatory publishers but there were identities of his offences demanding money from publishers. You can find them in the URL given below

http://lisnews.org/bealls_list_predatory_openaccess_publishers_2012_edition
http://www.scientistsolutions.com/t25179jeffrey+beall+is+blackmailing+small+open+access+publ...

If Beall J is really strong about his statements then i would suggest him to proceed legally on Nature or Elsevier and some other journals who complained that he had demanded them US$ 5000 to remove their journals from predatory list.

Originally published at : http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-publishers-are-corrupting-open-access-1.11385

L. Jones said:

Please read Jeffrey Beall's email to all the publisher's who names are included in the list. It is now clear that what Jeffrey Beall has done is to get famous and get money from the publishers by blackmailing publishers and demanding US$5000 each for excluding their names from the list. This person is doing this criminal activity to gain money. He does not know in a real sense anything about publication.
NATURE should take action against him or soon the publisher's will file a case against this person and NATURE for spreading false information about their companies.

Subject: Open Access Publishing
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:39:18 +0000
From: Jeffrey Beall

I maintain list of predatory open access publishers in my blog http://scholarlyoa.com

Your publisher name is also included in 2012 edition of my predatory open access publishers list. My recent article in Nature journal can be read below

http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-publishers-are-corrupting-open-access-1.11385

I can consider re-evaluating your journals for 2013 edition of my list. It takes a lot my time and resources. The fee for re-evaluation of your publisher is USD 5000. If your publisher name is not in my list, it will increase trustworthiness to your journals and it will draw more article submissions. In case you like re-evaluation for your journals, you can contact me.

Cordially
Jeffrey Beall

Anon I know what you mean but when you have a subscription to Elsevier titles, or indeed the larger groups like the Freedom collection the number of OA papers you are paying for twice is rather tiny to the access you have even if 'you is the taxpayer.

The fact that in the UK there is the open willingness to pay for this form of OA rather than going for a NIH styled blanket free after x amount of time policy shows you where the money is being wasted.
Governments need to get their act together and just tell the publishers that if they want to keep getting their papers, editorial work and peer review from government funded scientists and researchers then they have to give up on their exceptation of this additional revenue stream (which is what it really is to them for the 'work' involved'. It's not like it's self funding like pure OA, it's practically all profit as it's part of their normal work.

See also this link.

Bill

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bealls-List-of-Predatory-Open-Access-Publishers/329861460417572

Bravo to Jeffrey Beall for this very valuable service to all those who really care about removing the many obstacles from the path of Open Access.

Stevan Harnad