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<p class="p1">Dear Colleagues,</p>
<p class="p1">Have any of you been contacted by an open-access publisher called David Publishing? I received an email from them several months ago about publishing a very old article in an anthology, which I turned down after looking into their operation. They often ask for an author fee and transfer copyright. Recently they contacted me about publishing a conference presentation, and got a bit testy when I did not respond. I had to ask them to take me off the list.</p>
<p class="p1">I regularly get invited to conferences in China in areas in which I have zero expertise: chemistry, management, and so on. Back in the days when I thought this was simply a mistake, I could contact the group and explain what I do. They invariably insisted that I was the person they want. According to friends in the sciences, they can find themselves as keynote speakers without having agreed to give a talk, or on editorial boards of journals in cases where they have never agreed to serve. I wonder if the editorial boards of David Publishing also are fake.</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">I found this website about David Publishing: <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/2015/10/15/david-publishing-company-a-massive-spammer-from-china/"><span class="s2"><a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/2015/10/15/david-publishing-company-a-massive-spammer-from-china/" rel="nofollow">https://scholarlyoa.com/2015/10/15/david-publishing-company-a-massive-spammer-from-china/</a></span></a></span></p>
<p class="p1">Does anyone know more about this operation? And, is there any way to lodge a formal protest against these faux-academic publishing operations?</p>
<p class="p1">Wendy Larson <<a href="mailto:walarson@uoregon.edu">walarson@uoregon.edu</a>></p>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on October 22, 2016 </div>
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