<div dir="ltr">In 2013, Jeffrey Beall published an attack on the open-access scholarship movement in tripleC: “The Open-Access Movement Is Not Really About Open Access”. This article examines the claims and arguments of that contribution. Beall’s article makes broad generalizations about open-access advocates with very little supporting evidence, but his rhetoric provides good examples of what Albert O. Hirschman called the “rhetoric of reaction”. <b><font color="#ff0000">Specifically, it provides examples of the perversity thesis, the futility thesis, and the jeopardy thesis in action. While the main argument is both unsound and invalid, it does show a rare example of reactionary rhetoric from a librarian.</font></b><div>
<br><a href="http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/617/574">http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/617/574</a></div></div>