Is there any email settings that can help me block or avoid emails from these publishers? They send too many emails to my institutional and personal emails.
They must have gotten your mail from your published work. you can spam the mails
Hi Emeka,
Most email systems provide you with a way to proactively filter emails including automatically deleting or archiving emails from particular addresses. For example, if you are using Gmail then the look up help on the Filter command and it will help you set up a Rule for filtering your emails.
For your Institution account I would recommend talking to you IT Support people as this maybe something that could be done at the corporate level. They are also likely to have instructions on how to set up the rules on the institutions email accounts.
They must have gotten your mail from your published work. you can spam the mails
I am actively attached with one peer reviewed, open access, free journal indexed by Thomson Reuters in ESCI category. We use g mail address as it is used from the begining. We are facing different types of problems due to the fact that it is free. Even we are not left by the paid journals, both famous and predatory journals. Many of them think that we are obstructing in the way of their business.
Our journal site is www.animalmedicalresearch.org.
I have spam such mails to prevent them from scrupulously entangling themselves with my important mails. Predatory journals remain predatory, buglers and as such they must always not be allowed into our house...either we show them the exit always using the filter email settings or handcuff them in prison using the spam.
I have benefited from your wealth of responses as I have been facing the same problem.
Dear Dr. Emeka,
I am also facing the same issue. But there is an option at the bottom of the mail to "unsubscribe" future messages from them.
I am not sure whether your institution or your personal e-mail providers use any spamblocking technology, but typically, the most effective way will be to report spam e-mails (and encourage your colleagues to report them) to your e-mail provider.
Someone had suggested unsubscribing, but the problem with unsubscribing is that you have now confirmed that your e-mail address works; anyone unscrupulous enough to run a predatory journal is likely to sell or reuse those lists.
https://lifehacker.com/unsubscribing-from-spam-only-makes-it-worse-1796170464
You might also set up a filter on a common phrase so that you can automatically remove the e-mails from your inbox into a different folder and process them in bulk once a week, making certain you skim for any legitimate e-mails before deleting.
Hi! I did a filter for gmail based on Beall's list - outdated but still effective!
Please find it here:
https://bettersoftwarebetterlife.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/updated-gmail-and-google-based-emails-filter-against-predatory-publishers/
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