6 years ago: Beall's List bowed out

A criterion for Jeffrey Beall's infamous list of 'predatory journals' was "Has no policies or practices for digital preservation". His own blog vanished in January 2017 without being formally archived, though various copies live on.
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/01/17/bealls-list-potential-predatory-publishers-go-dark/

Beall's parting thoughts: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5493177/
Response from his then boss: https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/16837/18435

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