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Jason - The Opaque to Jason's feed, LSW
"Scientific & Academic Publishing (SAP) an Open-Access publisher" would like to list their website address on our site. Looks like a typical spam letter to me except directly from a company instead of a 'researcher' Am I wrong? Have you heard of these people and found them to be legitimate?
April 11, 2012
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They have a website that looks legitimate: http://www.sapub.org/journal...
- adf
I would reply that the decision to link to their journals is a collections decision, and pass it along to the relevant subject librarian. Without telling the publisher who that relevant person is, of course.
- DJF
Scammers. Do not link.
- RepoRat
yup.
- jambina
so I'm guessing they aggregate free content that is out there and make themselves look legitimate. What is their goal though? ads, or malware?
- Jason - The Opaque
May not be their sole business model. They may be scamming desperate scholars in developing nations. See Richard Poynder: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2011...
- RepoRat
Coincidentally, the Library Loon just posted http://gavialib.com/2012...
- RepoRat
Wow. The Loon's post is great, and fills a gap in my OA book. If that book was successful enough to warrant a second edition, I'd ask the Loon for permission to adapt or just quote most of the post, with permission, of course. (As it is...so far, I haven't even received an accounting, but it's clearly not setting the world on fire.)
- Walt Crawford
that is great thanks D
- Jason - The Opaque
They say their address is 1200 Rosemead Blvd, STE D #105, Rosemead, CA, 91731, but I don't see anything there. http://g.co/maps/6uv4h Neither 1200 N or 1200 S.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
oh, GOOD one.
- RepoRat
Wrt editorial boards, some v scammy outfits list people without their permission. So if u see a scammy jnl with a member of your faculty on the board , best to let them know
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone