Thursday, August 13, 2020

another contributor hooked

Well, this is no good.

I read the RASCals listserv digest message. The second item was disheartening.

Subject: American Journal of Astronomy and Astrophics (Dave Chapman)

Content:

Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:15:41 -0300
From: Dave Chapman <dave.chapman@ns.sympatico.ca>

Hi all,

I received an invitation to submit to the publication in the title, based on something I wrote for JRASC.  To me it smells funny.  What do people think?

http://www.astronomyjournal.org/submission/yyiDs

cheers, Dave Chapman, Fellow of the RASC
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

This suggests the warning message about predatory publishing did not reach all the contributors! Why?

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