Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Professor David M. Boje, Ph.D.

I nominate Cambridge Scholars Press to list of Predatory Publishers. Sent them ms. and they asked for us to do our own copy editing. Paid $14000 to do so, only to have CSP ask for more, and pay $1500 more. MS. was top notch to begin with. This is a case of a publisher who off loads the cost of proof and editing to the authors. We put a year into trying to please them. Turns out they only have quality control people, not actual proof readers or copy editors. You either use their list of recommended contractors, or go through the loop of quality control, again and again until you do.