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Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia, with offices in Latvia, Mauritius, and Moldova. Founded back in 2002, it has expanded into publishing academic research and special interest titles in English, German, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French, Polish and other languages, with its book catalog exceeding 300,000 titles. Its book production is based on print on demand technology, printing the title closest to the customer and avoiding stock keeping, as well as taking into account the impact on the environment, as publishing offset has a significant effect on climate change and deforestation.It has been criticized as a vanity press which does not apply the basic standards of academic publishing such as peer-review, editorial or proof-reading processes.OmniScriptum's imprints—in total more than 40, all listed on their website —specialize in publishing and selling theses, research notes, and dissertations in printed form via print on demand, in e-commerce bookstores.In 2011 OmniScriptum started its affiliate online-bookshop, morebooks.shop.Omniscriptum's publishing methods have been questioned for the soliciting of manuscripts from individuals, and for providing authors with the appearance of a peer-reviewed publishing history. Omniscriptum responds that it is a valuable, quality resource, that the company has no problem asking authors for content, that buyers are informed of where information comes from, that books are a convenient form to collect articles about interesting subjects, and that its customers are satisfied with Omniscriptum's products. Peer review in academic publishing itself is often criticised. Richard Smith, MD, former editor of British Medical Journal has claimed that peer review is ''is ineffective, largely a lottery, anti-innovatory, slow, expensive, wasteful of scientific time, inefficient, easily abused, prone to bias, unable to detect fraud and irrelevant; Many journals take months and even years to publish and the process wastes researchers’ time. As for the cost, the Research Information Network estimated the global cost of peer review at £1.9 billion in 2008.''In addition, Australia's Innovative Research Universities group has found that peer review disadvantages researchers in their early careers, when they rely on competitive grants to cover their salaries and when unsuccessful funding applications “often mark the end of a research idea”.OmniScriptum is designated as non-scientific by the Norwegian Scientific Index.
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