From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 19:20:42 +0000

Has anyone else received a message like the one below? Scientific &
Academic Publishing is one of the outfits included on Beall's List as
a "predatory" publisher, so I'm not surprised that I got a blind
solicitation from them — we all get those as a matter of course. What
concerns me is that SAP is acting as if an article I published two
years ago in the Journal of Academic Librarianship has been submitted
to SAP for publication in one of its journals.

Now, I realize that the message doesn't say explicitly that the
article was submitted to SAP—it only says that they have "read the
abstract" and will "recommend" it to their editors—but what concerns
me is the possibility that they might decide to republish it without
permission.

Have others on the list had experiences with this crew? I responded to
the message asking the sender to identify him- or herself and to
explain where they got the idea that my article had been made
available to them for editorial consideration, but I don't really
expect a reply.

Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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From: "H. Anderson" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "H. Anderson" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 11:22 AM
To: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for Papers, January 2014

Dear Colleague,

We've finished reading the abstract of your paper The Crisis in
Research Librarianship and will recommend it to our editors. If you
are interested in our journals and want to publish it on our journals,
please extend this paper and send it to us by our online submission
system(http://www.manuscriptsystem.com). All manuscripts submitted
will be considered for publication.

If this paper has been published, we also welcome you to submit other
papers to us, your papers will be published as soon as possible and we
will mail the print format to you later.

Welcome to visit our website at http://www.sapub.org.