This obvious scam, from someone impersonating leading
scholarly publishers, isn't the same thing as Bentham,
which is a real publishing company.
Fytton Rowland.
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:56:12 +0100
Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 09:31:07 -0500
> From: [deleted]
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Bentham Science Publishers
>
> I don't know if this is relevant but it sounds like it
> might be. This email is
> several weeks old:
>
> > >From Scope Knowledge today:
> >
> > Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing
> > business of John Wiley
> > & Sons, Inc., US, and STM publisher Elsevier,
> > Netherlands, have alerted
> > authors against an e-mail spam through their respective
> > websites.
> >
> > An e-mail message, circulated last week, sought
> > manuscript submissions
> > for peer-reviewed journals and claimed to come from
> > Blackwell
> > Publishing. It called for articles 'in all fields of
> > human endeavor,'
> > and said that the editors would decide on which journal
> > it should appear
> > in. The message, which came from a gmail.com address,
> > requested
> > manuscripts be sent to someone at live.com.
> >
> > A similar message was circulated a few months ago asking
> > for manuscripts
> > for Elsevier journals. People who responded to the
> > message were asked to
> > send money for a handling fee. An investigation
> > conducted by Elsevier
> > traced the e-mail to an Internet cafe in Nigeria. In
> > response to the
> > Elsevier scam, the International Association of Science,
> > Technical and
> > Medical Publishers also placed a warning on its website.
> >
> > Wendy
> >
> > Dr. Wendy A. Warr
> > Wendy Warr & Associates
> > 6 Berwick Court, Holmes Chapel
> > Cheshire, CW4 7HZ, England
> > Tel./fax +44 (0)1477 533837
> wendy -- warr.com http://www.warr.com
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:23:18 +0100
> > From: Richard Poynder <richard.poynder -AT- btinternet
> > dot com>
> > To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM --
> > LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
> > Subject: Bentham Science Publishers
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I would be grateful if anyone could help me. I am
> > interested in an Open
> > Access publisher called Bentham Science Publishers
> > (http://www.bentham.org/). I have been contacted by a
> > number of researchers
> > who say that the company is bombarding them with
> > invitations to contribute
> > papers to its journals. Apparently requests by the
> > recipients to remove them
> > from Bentham's mailing list have little or no effect.
> >
> > I have tried to make contact with a number of people in
> > the company
> > including Richard Scott, who is most often the person
> > whose name appears at
> > the bottom of the invitation letters, and was until
> > recently listed as the
> > editorial director of the company on its web site
> > (http://www.bentham.org/Contact.php). I also copied into
> > my emails Bentham's
> > US contact Richard Morrissey, and Matthew Honan, who
> > earlier this year was
> > also described as the company's editorial director
> > (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/01/bentham-oa-publishing-progra
> > m.html).
> > Likewise I copied in Professor Thomas Salt, since he too
> > has signed
> > some of the offending emails in his capacity as
> > Editor-in-Chief of a Bentham
> > journal called Current Neuropharmacology. Tom Salt
> > appears to be based in
> > the Department of Visual Science at the Institute of
> > Ophthalmology in
> > London.
> >
> > Despite all my attempts to make email contact with the
> > company and its
> > representatives, however, the only response I have
> > received has come from
> > someone called Mahmood Alam who seems to be based in
> > Pakistan. He informed
> > me that Richard Scott was too busy to speak with me, but
> > invited me to email
> > my questions to him. After I sent some questions through
> > to Mahmood Alam,
> > however, he failed to answer them.
> >
> > I have also tried calling the telephone numbers listed
> > on the Bentham web
> > site, but have only been able to get through to voice
> > mail messages. The
> > number listed for Richard Morrissey simply invites
> > callers to email him (the
> > address given is the one that I have failed to get any
> > response from).
> >
> > I would be most grateful if anyone who has any knowledge
> > of Bentham, or any
> > experience of publishing with the company, or editing
> > any of its journals,
> > or anyone who regularly reads any of the Bentham
> > journals, could contact me
> > on: richardpoynder1 -- o2.co.uk.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Richard Poynder
> > www.richardpoynder.co.uk
>
>
> --
> Lloyd Davidson
Received on Sun Apr 06 2008 - 18:15:22 BST