Alleged Defamation Worth $1B

摘要

Here we go again: another academic librarian received a letter threatening legal action concerning criticism of a publisher's practices on a personal blog. But it's not Edwin Mellen Press that's the plaintiff this time; Jeffrey Beall, University of Colorado Denver librarian, author of the Scholarly Open Access blog, and longtime LJ reviewer, received the letter from OMICS Publishing Group, an open access (OA) publisher based in India (with an office in Los Angeles).