Comment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable Actions by the Publisher by Grégory

The DOAJ and OASPA consist, at least in part, of questionable publishers themselves, who are not at all involved in open access publishing in the proper sense of the term, but rather in MDPI-style abuse for commercial purposes of the term and publishing practices reminiscent of classic vanity presses (a publisher that demands that its authors pay to publish is a vanity press by definition and it’s the very opposite of the core idea of open access). The fact that a predatory/questionable publisher “meets the membership criteria” of the predatory/questionable publishers’ own organisation is as relevant as when the wolves in sheep’s clothing’s Sheep Association determines that a wolf “meets the sheep criteria.”