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I’ve been trying to find information about the status of H&S Media, which appears to be an “on- demand publishing and digital distribution” company, apparently set up in the UK. H&S seems to specialize in Persian content although language of publication is not limited to Persian and their catalog includes some books n English as well. I’ve come across with a very attractive ‘call for contributions’ for an edited book on contemporary cinema but the name of H&S is involved and I don’t know what to think of it. Any information or ideas on this company? Perhaps you would have some suggestions on how to check on this or similar publishing houses? Thank you.

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Awesome! You are so famous they are blocking an entire state so you can’t see what they are up to!

Hi, Jeffrey.
The link http://www.annexpublishers.com links to this same page at your website !
BHRW

Some info for you, Jeffrey. The link in the post refers one back to the same post, by the way. Best wishes Bruce

hello..
i want to publish paper in penseejournal.com
really this journal is fake???/

I’m from Malaysia. Yes. i can access both website.

Yes, please do NOT submit a paper there.

Thanks, Liz!

I think they have built in a redirect to Jeffrey’s page when the HTTP referer is scholarlyoa.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer

I have submitted and paid quite a big amount of money for my article’s publication in December, 2013, to Pensee Journal (http://www.penseejournal.com/archive.html). At that moment I didn’t have an idea at all about the existence of such kind hilacked journals! Now of course the Ministry of Science did not consider it as publication…i just wanna know why this journal is still continuing its crime?? Just look at the latest archive (http://www.penseejournal.com/archive.html)…It is a profitable business of course. Basically authors are from non english countries and they do not have information about that at all. Are there any ways to punish those people??..

Excellent questions– I wish I had some good answers. I am just trying to warn people about this and other scholarly publishing scams. I’m not sure what else I can do.

Dear Mr Jeffrey Beall, thank you very much for your help for the authors! I wish I had seen your blog much earlier, but this is a good lesson for me of course, and i am going to warn my colleagues as well to be very very careful. I think it is just a question of time and…unfortunately money. I strongly beleive your blog must be speaded to each Ministry of Education and Science around the world especially to non english-speaking and developing countries!

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This journal is on my list, and I recommend that scholars not publish there.
How long was the turn around time for each article?
Are you willing to share the peer reviews with me? How many times did you have to revise and resubmit each article? Or, what was the extent of the changes the reviewers asked you to make? How many articles in total have you published there?

This publisher is on my list. I recommend that you find a better place to publish your work.

I would appreciate if you could provide some information regarding the publisher Science Publishing Corporation. they are open access publisher with DOI and do not charge article processing fee at present. Kindly let me know your learned view on this.

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