From now on, the requests of withdrawal will be systematically rejected, except the requests pointing out an error of my office, which will have to be carried out henceforth by a public institution.
After receiving hundreds of threatening messages (including messages containing my personal address), I decided that any addition to the Dolos list was final. On the one hand, sorting between serious demands and threats of lawsuits, public attacks, or even death requires too much time, while my team already has enough work. On the other hand, this is intended to prove that these threats will never lead to the removal of publishers' from the list, but to more and more severe measures.
Some publishers had even asked for a probationary period before sending us, a few weeks later, threats of lawsuits from their lawyers. All deletion requests and probationary periods in progress are therefore suspended.
An addition to the Dolos list is therefore final. I am now curious to know if these threats will lead to something concrete.
Best regards,
Professor Alexandre GEORGES.
If the publishers in your list are genuine then there is no reason to threat. Only predatory publishers will threat.
Dear Subir Bandyopadhyay,
Indeed. And if a legitimate publisher is on my list bycause of an error, it will not be difficult for this publisher to be represented by a public institution to be removed. But in the meantime, the publisher can not request this deletion itself. Only the highlighting (by a public institution) of an error in my office can then lead to a deletion. But a predatory publisher can no longer be removed after a probationary period of 6 years, which was possible before.
Best regards,
Alexandre.
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