Dear all, Happy to share my exclusive interview with* Jeffrey Beall*, best known globally for his fight against predatory open access publishing practices. In a first, Beall has spoken exclusively about the dubious open access publishing practices prevailing in the Asia-Pacific region in general and India in particular. To access the interview literature, please visit *https://openinterview.org/ https://openinterview.org/* You may also download the attached file comprising the same. *Open Interview* is a crowdsourced blog created on open access principles. It is dedicated for sharing interview transcripts of the experts in the filed of academia, art, socio-cultural domains. Open Interview is launched today with Jeffrey Beall's interview as its first blog post. We welcome your feedback. Best regards, -- *Santosh C. Hulagabali https://santoshch.weebly.com/ PhD* Moderator, Open Interview Librarian, Nagindas Khandwala College* (Autonomous) Malad (W) | Mumbai-400 064 | India Tel: +91-22-2808 5424 | Extn.No.335/336 | Fax: 2865 0461 http://nkc.ac.in/ | COIST http://www.coist.weebly.com/ **Affiliated to University of Mumbai | **Reaccredited 'A' Grade by NAAC | ISO 9001:2008 * .................................................................................................................................... DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) & may contain confidential & privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail & discard all copies of the original message. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.