Dear Professionals, This is a very good initiative and well designed/structured crowdsourced blog for Open Interview by Dr Hulagabali. The very first interview is most important one by Dr. Jeffrey Beall, the crusador of Predatory Journal Publishing. I read the interview with well planned questions with very appropriate answers by Dr. Beall. His comments about India's role in predatory publishing, UGC approved List of Journals, setting of Publishing companies by South Asians in USA, State of Delaware and steps to be taken to curb this menace are worth reading and adapted especially by Research and Academic Administrators in India. For detailed text of discussion between the interviewer and Dr. Beall Please visit: https://openinterview.org/2019/01/17/jaffrey-beall-south-asia-has-a-worldwid... Following are five categories of Open Interview this blog plans to cover: *(a)* *personality interview*– interview of an individual; *(b)** institutional interview-* where the proprietor/ caretaker shares the success story and contributions of the institution; *(c)* *mirror interview* – where two/three experts are interviewed with the same set of questions and their individual answers are documented; *(d)* *informational/ instructional interview*– where an expert guides by answering questions concerned with ‘how’ to operate/ apply/ use/ or solve a practical or technical issue; *(e)* *third-party interview- *publishers/ institutions/ authors/ individuals who have conducted/ published any interviews of the personalities belonging to education or social domains. Congratulations Dr. Santosh Hulagabali. Regards, Goudar "Access E-Resources for Academic and Research Excellence" *- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -* Dr. I.R.N. Goudar - Adjunct Professor, Mangalore University - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser Bangalore University Library, BANGALORE - 560056 - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, UoM, Mysore - Ex. Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore - Ex. Dy Librarian, IITM, Chennai - Ex. Scientist (Information), IICT, Hyderabad - Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Michigan and Columbia Univ, USA (1995-96) - British Council Scholar (1982-83) E-mail: goudarishwar@gmail.com Mob: 91+9611165781 On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:39 PM Santosh C. Hulagabali wrote:

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

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