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Taxacom: mdpi soliciting

John Grehan calabar.john at gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 10:44:06 CST 2025 

Yeah - something we have to live with. At least usually with companies they
give the option to 'unsubscribe' and usually that works fine for that. I
got soured on MDPI originally when I first got such an invite only to find
down the line that they wanted money for any contribution. And sometimes
get solicitations for some 'major review' of a topic for which they will
have multiple contributions - supposedly. Glad at least in your case you
are working with a realistic interface.

Cheers, John

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM Frank T. Krell <Frank.Krell at dmns.org>
wrote:

> John, I agree that such soliciting is annoying, as it is a common practice
> of so called predatory journals (of which I get at least one, sometimes
> five a day). I am not sure if I ever got one from MDPI, but if I reject
> review requests because the manuscript was outside my expertise, I always
> got an apology from a managing editor. They are at least polite.
> Since our institute bought a Keyence microscope, we get marketing emails
> from Keyence every week, sometimes several times, and often very pushy.
> This is annoying too, but the microscope is still the best part of
> equipment I have ever come across. I guess aggressive marketing is
> something we have to live with in a world ruled by money.
>
> Frank
>
>
> Dr. Frank-Thorsten Krell
>
> Senior Curator of Entomology, Editor-in-Chief
> Department of Zoology
> Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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> Denver, Colorado 80205-5798, U.S.A.
> Frank.krell at dmns.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taxacom <taxacom-bounces at lists.ku.edu> On Behalf Of John Grehan via
> Taxacom
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 12:17 AM
> To: taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Subject: Taxacom: mdpi soliciting
>
> By coincidence in reference to my recent comment about mdpi nuisance, here
> is another:
>
> Dear Dr. Grehan,
>
> A few weeks ago, we invited you to submit a paper *for free*, either a
> comprehensive review or an original research article, to Insects. The
> detailed email is as follows.
>
> Could you please let us know if you are interested in this offer? If so,
> please provide the tentative title or abstract to me(mona.liu at mdpi.com)
> in advance. I would be delighted to provide you with guidance on how to
> fully prepare it and where to submit it. The submission time is flexible.
> If you need more time, please feel free to let me know.
>
> We look forward to your reply.
>
> To which I responded
>
> "Not interested.And no more soliciting articles from mdpi"
>
> We'll see if that is blunt enough.
>
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