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May 18, 2013 12:00 am PDT

India's OMICS Publishing Group threatens scholarly critic with $1 billion lawsuit, jailtime

OMICS Publishing Group, an Indian scholarly publisher has threatened to sue one of its critics, Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, for $1 billion, and has threatened him with prison time over posts he made to his prominent Scholarly Open Access site. OMICS cites India's terrible Information Technology Act as the basis for its threats. However, it [...]



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