More adventures in spam! Huzzah!
Some sketchy dude from a one-man vanity publisher (International Frequency Sensor Association) would like me to recycle a JOSA A paper into a chapter for his book -- with a minimum of "14 or 16 pages" -- and pay him €680. He doesn't know which paper from JOSA A he has in mind.
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From: Prof., Dr. Sergey Y. Yurish, Editor-in-Chief [mailto:syurish@sensorsportal.com]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 9:55 PM
To:
Subject: Your article in OSA’s Journal of the Optical Society of America A: feedback
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 9:55 PM
To:
$AUTHORSubject: Your article in OSA’s Journal of the Optical Society of America A: feedback
02.06.2017, 11:55:01
Delivered to:
$E_ADDRESSDear Author !
Taking into account the topic of your article and big interest from readers to this topic, it is my great pleasure to invite you to extend or/and change your article(s) published in OSA’s Journal of the Optical Society of America A (ISSN 1520-8532) and submit it as a book chapter(s) for our open access book titled 'Advances in Optics: Reviews' Book Series, Vol. 1, which will be published by IFSA Publishing (Barcelona, Spain) in 2017.
Topics of Interest include (but not limited to):
• Optical and Fibre Optical Sensors and Instrumentation
•
$ALL_INCLUSIVE_LIST_OF_IRRELEVANT_TOPICS• Optical Microscopy of Composites
Please check more details, requirements, conditions and book’s chapter template on our web site:
http://www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/Advances_in_Optics_Vol_1_CfC.htm
Deadline for chapters is 31 August 2017.
The minimum pages number is 14 or 16, the maximum page number is not limited.
The publication fee is 680.00 EUR per chapter. Authors from low and low middle income countries:
http://www.sensorsportal.com/DOWNLOADS/World_Bankank_list_of_economics_2016.pdf
will have a discount.
Please let me know if you are interesting to submit a book chapter. We need your reply in order to reserve a space in the coming book’s volume.
Waiting for your kind reply.
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
Prof., Dr. Sergey Y. Yurish,
Editor-in-Chief
IFSA Publishing, S.L.
Parc UPC-PMT, Edifici RDIT-K2M
c/ Esteve Terradas, 1
08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
Tel.: +34 696067716
E-mail: editor@sensorsportal.com
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I advised Professor Dr Yurish that I was not"interesting to submit a book chapter" -- albeit in intemperate terms, for self-plagiarism is not well-thought-of in academic circles, so the solicitation was insulting.
Actual reply not copied here for fear of self-plagiarism.
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From: Sergey Y. Yurish [mailto:SYurish@sensorsportal.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2017 12:08 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Your article in OSA’s Journal of the Optical Society of America A: feedback
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2017 12:08 AM
To:
$AUTHORSubject: Re: Your article in OSA’s Journal of the Optical Society of America A: feedback
Dear
$AUTHOR,Does the feedback about your article titled
$TITLE published in the OSA’s Journal of the Optical Society of America A is a fucking scammy spam ? I think the OSA's journal's editors and administration in your university will be very interesting to see your reply (copy in forward) as well as to make the right decision do not publish any more articles from/with the inadequate person.Regards,
Prof. Sergey Y. Yurish
Editor-in-Chief
And there the conversation rests.