Today I received the following email:
Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 1:33 PM
Subject: Hilaris Publisher offers suggestions for improvisations
Dear Professor,
I hope my email finds you well
Professor, recently the journal Hillaris has contacted me asking me to pay almost $1000 for publishing my article, which I send to them in 2018. even when told them don't because I can't pay.
Professor, they publish it without my signing a copyright agreement.
Honestly, I am from a north African nation $1000 is almost 3 months' wage payment.
Profesor, they are threatening me and others according to your article in the blog with legal charges?
can you help me, by telling me what to do?
Thank you for your support
best regards
Any advice? If so, please post it (anonymously or otherwise) as a comment below. More information on the publisher is available through the search bar or the label widget on the right.
If an author has not signed copyright transfer agreement, then he/she is free to publish article in any journal.
ReplyDeleteNot only that, but if the author never accepted the publisher's offer to publish the article and never licensed the publication, he or she can demand that the publisher cease publishing the paper and stop asking for payment.
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