From: Jim Henderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:29:40 +0000

I remember meeting, back in the 70s, the editor of a mathematics
journal published by Gordon & Breach who was visiting the campus where
I was then working. He asked to see issues of his journal, I told him
about problems we were having with our G&B subscriptions and he spoke
very disparagingly of their practices and ethics.  Not sure if he
resigned his editorship but it was clear he was checking up on and
trying hard to deal with the publisher and its practices.  This is, of
course, hearsay evidence, but it does point out that the problems
being discussed are not new with the advent of open access publishing.
 Gordon & Breach were subsequently involved in a number of lawsuits.

Jim Henderson
Canadian Virtual Health Library / Bibliothèque virtuelle canadienne de la santé

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:59:13 +0100

David:

You are sophisticated person. There is no evidence that people in
emerging countries do have problems with this sort of spam and take it
at its face value. Some of this spam is quite cleverly worded (though
some is obviously not) and academics I have been interviewed are
annoyed because they do have to look more carefully to make sure that
it is not what is claimed to be. I advise looking at the OASPA
membership list

Anthony

-----Original Message-----
From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:04:37 +0100

I got an email that looked suspiciously like spam from a publisher
today.  I deleted it.  It is all really very, very easy.

David


On 9 Apr 2013, at 20:30, LIBLICENSE wrote:

From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 00:32:17 -0500

It is unfortunate that there are so many gullible academics willing to
lend their names and prestige to enterprises that are running these
dubious operations.  Perhaps part of graduate education should include
an introduction to the world of publishing that would enable future
professors to distinguish fraudulent from real publishers.

Sandy Thatcher