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Tue May 3 19:52:43 BST 2011

My wife had the same scam.
Fortunately I get missed out as unimportant.

Nick
Dr NJD Macartney FRCA FFICM
ICU Director
Chase Farm Hospital
The Ridgeway
Enfield
EN2 8JL
+4420 8375 1074

On 03/05/2011 13:19, "Miranda Voss" <mvossak at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>Not trauma but still worth sharing:
>
>About 10 years ago, one of my mentors told me always to accept
>invitations to publish, so when I received an invitation to contribute a
>chapter to an on-line endoscopy book a few months ago, I accepted
>although I had never heard of "Intech" before.  It was slightly suprising
>because the invitation came on the strength of a single endoscopy related
>article in a local journal and we were allowed to choose our chapter
>topic. I had never heard of the editor, any of the other authors, or
>their institutions, and the limited list of chapters covered an even more
>limited list of topics.
>
>However, we pressed on and, in the interests of information sharing, put
>quite a lot of work into a review article which outlined the burden of
>digestive disease in poorer countries and strategies to deal with cost
>constraints when providing an endoscopy service.
>
>We submitted the article but oddly, a week after the deadline, we were
>not allowed to make an important addition which was prompted by new
>information. Shortly afterwards, I was sent an invoice for 590€
>"processing charges". I have withdrawn the article.
>
>I have since Googled "Intech" and the blogs suggest that it is a poor
>quality product which “preys” on authors desperate to publish. Being
>invited to contribute is actually quite an insult!
>
>The moral of this story is that, in the electronic age, there are
>exceptions to the "always accept invitations to publish" rule. Google
>before and not after to avoid a waste of time and effort, not to mention
>an uncomfortable feeling that you have been the victim of your own vanity.
>
>Miranda
>Worcester RSA. 
>
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