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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>As Cameron Neylon said in an article before - black lists/predatory lists of scholarly journals are not sustainable, and should not be encouraged, for various valid reasons. There are nowadays also service providers "selling" black lists (through subscriptions), which in my view is the only thing worse than a black list - making money from questionable journals, who are also in the business of making money - therefore questionable. See <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid #DDDDDD 2.25pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:4.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in'><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none;padding:0in;font-stretch:normal'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;letter-spacing:-.6pt'>Blacklists are technically infeasible, practically unreliable and unethical. Period.<o:p></o:p></span></h2></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://cameronneylon.net/blog/blacklists-are-technically-infeasible-practically-unreliable-and-unethical-period/"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>https://cameronneylon.net/blog/blacklists-are-technically-infeasible-practically-unreliable-and-unethical-period/</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>In stead of focusing on questionable journals, please refer your researchers/editors to the </span><a href="https://doaj.org/"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Directory of Open Access Journals</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>, where you will be able to find all high quality and trusted Open Access journals. If the OA journal is not listed there, please consider it as possibly questionable, and contact the DOAJ to inquire about the status of the journal?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Also add the link to the DOAJ to your library web page if not there yet, and assist OA journals to apply for inclusion, and help our SA journals to become more internationally visible. </span><a href="https://doaj.org/application/new"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Apply for inclusion here</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Ina<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Ina Smith</span></b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Project Manager: </span><a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/"><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>African Open Science Platform</span></a><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'> <br>SciELO Planning Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<br></span><a href="https://blog.doaj.org/2016/09/07/the-doaj-ambassadors-biographies/"><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>DOAJ Ambassador, Southern Africa Region</span></a><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century 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