Hi, I keep getting mailings about IPSI conferences and journals, and I'm just a bit dubious about the organisation. It seems to be essentially a private company which makes its income out of running quite expensive conferences and publishing journals which contributors pay to be included in. They seem to have quite a scatter-gun approach to CFPs - I suspect they get email addresses from selected www pages rather than any professional or academic source. http://www.internetconferences.net/

From what I've seen, they do seem to me to be the academic equivalent of vanity publishing. Does anybody have any experience of either their conferences or their journals, or comments on just how seriously I should take them?

Thanks Debbie Herring -- Urban Theology Unit, Sheffield http://cybertheology.org.uk Views expressed in this email are my own and are not necessarily those of the University of Sheffield or UTU.