Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, have alerted authors against an e-mail spam through their respective websites.
An e-mail message, circulated last week, sought manuscript submissions for peer-reviewed journals and claimed to come from Blackwell Publishing. It called for articles 'in all fields of human endeavor,' and said that the editors would decide on which journal it should appear in. The message, which came from a gmail.com address, requested manuscripts be sent to someone at live.com.
A similar message was circulated a few months ago asking for manuscripts for Elsevier journals. People who responded to the message were asked to send money for a handling fee. An investigation conducted by Elsevier traced the e-mail to an Internet cafe in Nigeria. In response to the Elsevier scam, the International Association of Science, Technical and Medical Publishers also placed a warning on its website.
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