Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Benno von Bormann, MD

I was invited by OMICS group to contribute for the Journal of Blood Disorders & Transfusion, either via website or sending the manuscript attached to an Email. I did the latter after a lot of work with the title, ‘Does Preoperative Anemia Deteriorate Patients postoperative Outcome or about the Difficulty of Comprehension.’ After peer review with some minor remarks the manuscript was eventually accepted, and up to that point the whole process was professional. Sending the final file for proof reading they surprisingly added an invoice of an amount of 1,500,- $ for publishing, something I of course denied. In response to my wondering letter they indicated that the conditions for publishing are described in their website. However, submitting the manuscript directly via mail, as offered, I didn’t have this information. Because I will never pay for being published the paper was retracted by me and my co-author. These organizations are money-collectors. Their prey are people who are in desperate need for publication(s) due to rules of their affiliation (uiniversity, company). It’s an industry.
A positive example as yet is the Baishideng Publishing Group. They asked for a case report emphasizing from the beginning that there will be no costs at all.