Apparently they don't do much of the things an academic publisher should
(peer-review, language correction, etc.). See
https://library.bond.edu.au/intl/news/46287/your-thesis-and-predatory-publisher.
I would put it in an OA repository instead, such as
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ or your institutional repository.
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 4:51 PM Kimberley Brown <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a former anthropology masters student, and I've recently gotten a
> couple of emails from someone at Lambert Academic Publishing offering to
> publish my masters thesis (which I completed in 2013 at the U of
> Manchester) for free, saying "We would be interested in publications on
> this topic with you. In case you have other unpublished research works in
> this field, would you be interested to publish with us?"
>
> Is this in any way legit and worth inquiring into further, or a big scam?
> I've now received two emails from them. I'm a freelance writer/journalist,
> so this does grab my attention...
>
> Thanks for any insight!
>
> Cheers,
> Kim
>
> +5939 6796 4114
> @Kimberleyjbrown
> www.kimberleyjbrown.com
>
>
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