
Errr, perhaps not a canard...
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-access-interviews-matthew-honan...
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0804/msg00027.html
I enjoyed hearing about your efforts to contact Bentham Publishers. I, too, have been curious about them. I looked at www.journalprices.com to check on whether Bentham has ISI-listed journals and how they are priced. Journalprices.com lists 14 Bentham journals, 12 are classified as "bad values" in terms of price per article and price per citation, and 2 as "medium values". It appears to me that they are an established publisher that has fallen into "bad hands".
Not only does Bentham spam for authors. They are also spamming for editors.
Evidently Bentham has a bad reputation in some parts. The Open Access model is not so much the problem as the company itself.

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