FYI: (a) Peter Suber‘s interview is cross-posted on Digital Access Scholarship at Harvard (DASH), Harvard (University) Library, Office of Scholarly Communication. Link (b) Jeffrey Beall’s interview is cross-posted by: Elephant in the Lab. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2556869
It’s very useful. Interviews dive more deeply into a topic than many authors would go on their own. They reach topics that many authors would not have reached on their own. –Peter Suber, a leading proponent of open access, Director, Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Director, Harvard Open Access Project
A wonderful set of interviews– Carl Malamud, American technologist, author, and public domain advocate, known for his foundation Public.Resource.Org A
It looks good. In fact, it looks very professional. Nicely done! – Jeffrey Beall, Former Academic Librarian, University of Colorado, Denver, U.S.A.
I really appreciate the series of interviews you are publishing. – Dr Subbiah Arunachalam, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
This is a very good initiative and well designed/structured crowdsourced blog by Dr Hulagabali. The very first interview (Dr Jeffrey Beall’s) is most important one. I read the interview. Well planned questions and very appropriate answers by Dr Beall. –Dr I R N Goudar, Former Scientist ‘G’ and Head, ICAST, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore
Good work. – Dr G K Manjunath, Director of Libraries, Ahmedabad University
A creative idea! – Dr Sanjaya Mishra, Education Specialist, Commonwealth Learning
Very good initiative. Beall’s interview- is a great beginning. Please keep it up. Well done!! – Dr Ramesh C Gaur, Director and Head, Kalanidhi Division, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi
Good work. –Dr Satish Kanamadi, Librarian, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
A very good initiative. – Dr Mayand Trivedi, University Librarian, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara
I think it’s a good effort and I appreciate your efforts. – Dr Kumaresan Chidambaranathan,Manager – Library & Information Services, Ara Institute of Canterbury – Christchurch, New Zealand
Excellent! It is the way one has to give back to society and uphold the values of librarianship. Good work and keep it up. – Dr S M Pujar, Chief Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai
I read the full interview (of Jeffrey Beall) and found it extremely good. ..I congratulate you on this initiative. – Dr Parvez Akhtar, Librarian, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad
It is an extremely nice effort to explore the thoughts of a person (Jeffrey Beall) who fought for freedom from predatory journals..Rope in more stalwarts through your Open Interview. – Dr Gopakumar V, University Librarian, Goa University
An eye-opener interview! (of Jeffrey Beall) – Arati Desai, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
The idea of interviewing Jeffrey Beall itself is amazing! I am thrilled that you have taken such an initiative. Please do more! – Vasumathi Sriganesh, Founder, QMed Knowledge Foundation
Indeed, nice initiative – Kishore Ingale, Head, Information Resource Centre, Tata Consultancy Services, Pune (Branch)
Open Interview sounds absolutely wonderful. It is such a rich initiative and I am certain it will be very valuable for knowledge scholars around the world. – Lavanya A Shanbogue, author, feminist researcher and TEDx speaker
It’s a brilliant initiative. – Dr Ravija Srivastava, Image Consultant, Mumbai
Wonderful. Great concept. – Satish Bendre, Former Senior Executive, Johnson & Johnson, Mumbai
I went through Open Interview’s website in detail and I loved it. The website indeed looks great and the initiative (you have taken to create a non-profit crowdsourced blog) will definitely help get more informative voices out there. – Puja Sherlekar, Graduate Student Writer, Fox School of Business, Temple University, U.S.A.
Selected the right topic for discussion with right person. Really it is informative. – Dr K C Gangadhar, NMIT, Bangalore
This is an amazing work. – Shweta Singh, Research Scholar,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Excellent! – Suman Nair, Head, HR Department, SIES Group of Institutions, Mumbai
Good beginning. Very informative and a must for academicians. –Dr Ravindra Dastikop, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad
