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Lambert Academic Publishers (LAP) is "an imprint of OmniScriptum ." It seeks to publish as many of the "invaluable" "5,000,000 theses [that] are written worldwide in the research industry" that it can get its hands on. According to an article in Slate , with the aid of Amazon.com, it also sells collections of Wikipedia articles as its own books. For additional adverse reports, see ⊡ Warning from Bond University Library about " Your Thesis and the Predatory Publisher " ⊡ Blog reporting use of stock photos as pictures of editors ⊡ Same blogger claiming LAP is "a company based in Mauritius and Eastern Europe " rather than Germany, as advertised Email From: Dyviah Ramnatsing (d.ramnatsing@lap-publishing.com) Sent: Sep 7, 2017 at 5:42 AM To: Kaye D Re: Kaye D’s work at the Penn State University Dear Kaye D, I am Dyviah Ramnatsing from Lambert Academic Publishing. Your work « KINSHIP MATCHING WITH DNA DATABASES (AKA “FAMILIAL SEARCHING”): L...

Cambridge Scholars Publishing's putative link to Cambridge is that it was "Founded by former lecturers and researchers from the University of Cambridge." According to the website's description of the 67 advisory board members (9/2/17), exactly one has a current or former connection to the University of Cambridge. (Terri Apter is a Fellow Emerita of Newman College.) The mailing address is in Newcastle. [UPDATE (10/13/18): An email of 12 October 2018 notes that "we remain proud of our roots, and maintain a representative office in Cambridge, the city of our foundation.] The website states that "We ... do not require any fees be paid to us for publication purposes." Hence, characterizing the business as predatory -- it was on Beall's list of possible predators -- would seem extreme. The quality of the books is debated at Political Science Rumors . A few respondents comment (mostly adversely) on what they have read. The journals do not look stellar. No ...

An article in Bloomberg Businessweek,,August 29, 2017, and reprinted in the September 4, 2017, issue of Bloomberg BNA’s Expert Evidence Report (a resource for lawyers) includes a detailed exposé of the pharmaceutical industry’s participation in flaky medical journals and conferences . It focuses on OMICS International, which threatened a librarian who called it “predatory,” with a billion dollar lawsuit. (An example of the articles OMICS publishes is here .) Excerpts from the BNA report follow, but the article is worth reading in full. ... Omics [claims] 1,000 open-access journal titles that post 50,000 articles annually in fields including medicine, technology, and engineering. It has also built a robust conference division that will hold about 3,000 events worldwide this year. ... Professors and researchers have identified [its CEO and founder, Srinubabu] Gedela as the progenitor of a fraudulent empire that's eroding public trust in scientific inquiry. He denies it all, contin...