Hi there,
I read this amusing article a while back, written by a blogger who
documented his experience publishing his undergraduate thesis with Lambert.
Enjoy!!!
https://slate.com/technology/2014/03/lap-lambert-academic-publishing-my-trip-to-a-print-content-farm.html
On Mon, 27 May 2019, 11:22 Abel Polese, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi, Lambert do not usually charge for publication of manuscripts so,
> technically, cannot be classified as predatory but rather vanity publisher.
> You publish with them because you like to see your name on a book cover no
> matter what is inside...
>
> There is a wide range of publishers with inconsistent content/quality,
> another one is Cambridge Scholars Publishers who (to my surprise) managed
> even to get taken into account by quality-insurance institutions, in some
> Western countries
>
> That said, when I screen a CV and see that the person has published with
> Lambert (or its counterparts like Presses universitaires
> europeennes)...well, it is very unlikely that the person will make it to
> the interview stage...
>
> if interested in the classification and in the process you can check my
> thread on academic publishers and their classification at
>
> https://www.academia.edu/38587902/Why_not_to_publish_with_Cambridge_University_Press_the_Scopus_Diaries_
>
> or the whole book about optimizing your academic career: The Scopus Diaries
> and the (Il)logics of academic survival
>
> https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-scopus-diaries-and-the-illogics-of-academic-survival/9783838211992
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 19:21, Heikki Wilenius <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > 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 In case you have other unpublished research works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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