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Re: Academic SPAM or vanity publishing?

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Re: Bel Biwaha

oootheyan — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:27:42 -0000

Good photos. Descriptive text. Job well done :) !

Re: Bel Biwaha

Utsav — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:19:32 -0000

I took the photos myself! Did have to read up a lot to get around to writing about it though. Thanks for dropping by :)

Re: Bel Biwaha

Abishek @The Blogger's Way — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:32:56 -0000

Hi Utsav,

Thanks for the insightful and in-depth background on Bel Biwaha, and your effort on collecting the images.

Interesting to know that Newari girl marry three times in their lifetime, no wonder they have a rich culture.

Re: Academic SPAM or vanity publishing?

Utsav — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:07:33 -0000

thank you for your comments. Your comments do add more substance to my post. Will be updating the post sometime soon with your links incorporated.

Re: Academic SPAM or vanity publishing?

Utsav — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:06:31 -0000

It does take a lot of thoughtful consideration to give up on a printed copy of your publication. Try portals which will host your academic publication for free. You would find them aplenty.

thanks for stopping by :)

Re: Academic SPAM or vanity publishing?

Umesh Dahal — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:33:08 -0000

2 days ago I got same like email from
Tatiana Costandachi (
Acquisition Editor. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing) , for publishing my final year project on
" Automatic Power Factor Correction by TSC and its Monitoring ". I now decide not to take any step further and mark the email as spam. I will now make my work free on web.
Cheers

Re: 14 million Nepalese shit in the open

Utsav — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:27:35 -0000

I never said Nepal was perfect but I'm loving it.

Re: 14 million Nepalese shit in the open

Biggybig — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:16:11 -0000

no country is perfect not even yours...

Re: Bel Biwaha

Utsav — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:42:51 -0000

You are welcome :)

Re: Bel Biwaha

Pariva — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:31:13 -0000

Hey Utsav... thank you so much for the glimpse of a very unique culture....

Re: Bel Biwaha

Utsav — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:05:16 -0000

thanks for stopping by and for your comments. I will try to pitch more from now I guess :)

Re: Bel Biwaha

tarna kumar — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:15:44 -0000

"closed mouth dont get fed" guess it is true. after you mentioned about the 2000 visit and not a single comment, I had to come and check out the post.Found it interesting. now I know about bel biwaha, thanks to you. pictures are nice. love the third one from the last a lot.

Re: Panorama of brick kilns at Godavari

Utsav — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:04:49 -0000

thanks!

Re: Panorama of brick kilns at Godavari

travel-o-grapher — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:37:47 -0000

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Re: Academic SPAM or vanity publishing?

amahagger — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:30:15 -0000

They are Vanity Press and also a 'real' company, but they charge exhorbitant ammounts for unedited print-on-demand books that they advertise as 'academic' in Amazon.

Many American and Australian universities warn students and staff against publishing with them (in Australia, Lambert publications are explicitly exluded from submission to the HERDC):

http://www.education.monash.ed...

http://www.gradschool.purdue.e...

http://www.csu.edu.au/research...

http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/t...

I wouldn't go near them...

Re: Wingardium Leviosa – levitation photography

kgb — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:37:21 -0000

hahahahah...so cool :-) working very hard, i see. hahahaha

Re: Wingardium Leviosa – levitation photography

Chhavilalsharma — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:46:36 -0000

Reallly Awesome...

Re: Wingardium Leviosa – levitation photography

Utsav — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:08:50 -0000

Thanks! Credits also due to Udayan and you guys who chipped in their creative inputs. :)

Re: Wingardium Leviosa – levitation photography

Seema Karki — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:58:21 -0000

Ur imagination come true Motagrapher :)
Awesome Levitating pics !

Re: Wingardium Leviosa – levitation photography

Udayan Mishra — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:11:31 -0000

this was awesome, we should do it more often :)

Re: Academic SPAM or vanity publishing?

Utsav — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:33:16 -0000

Thank you Rakesh for your comment. A few of my friends did get their dissertation published through Lambert and are quite happy about it as well. But the thing is Lambert publishes it verbatim (as it is written) without an editor validating it as happens with most peer reviewed journals. I am just worried how much clout it would have in an academic setting. Do refer to anonymous's comment on the same.

Thank you again for stopping by. :)

Re: Academic SPAM or vanity publishing?

Rakesh — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:23:34 -0000

This is not spam message. In Fact one of my friend publish his Ph.D. with publisher (lamb)

Re: Chisapani

Utsav — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:37:32 -0000

I guess it does :)

Re: Chisapani

Roshan Shrestha — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:02:23 -0000

Great pictures and great story tell are very good reasons for a hike, no?