<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Emanuel,<br><br>An invitation to submit does not mean that the paper will be published.<br>Open access (OA) journals publishers send numerous emails to convince authors to submit.<br>Sometimes it is done at the occasion of a conference, and it can be even mentioned on the conference website.<br>If all the submitted manuscripts would be published, the quality of the OA journals would be very poor.<br>This indeed happens for predatory journals and publishers, for which almost all manuscripts are published provided that the authors pay the page charge.<br>Fortunately, a serious journal have an editor, and the job of this latter is to decide if submitted manuscripts should be published or not.<br>The word "invitation" is also used for conferences.<br>As for journals, it just means that you are welcome to submit a contribution, but without any guarantee that it will be accepted (a true invited contribution is ususally associated to a funding, at least partial).<br>When a journal paper is invited, in the sense that anyway it will be published (possibly after corrections), it is explicitely mentioned by the editor in his invitation letter.<br>In the case of your paper, I do not see any contradiction between the invitation and the rejection.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Michel Petitjean<br>MTi, INSERM UMR-S 973, University Paris 7,<br>35 rue Helene Brion, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France.<br>Phone: +331 5727 8434; Fax: +331 5727 8372<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:petitjean.chiral@gmail.com">petitjean.chiral@gmail.com</a> (preferred),<br> <a href="mailto:michel.petitjean@univ-paris-diderot.fr">michel.petitjean@univ-paris-diderot.fr</a><br><a href="http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.html">http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.html</a><br><br><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-26 8:12 GMT+01:00 Emanuel Diamant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emanl.245@gmail.com" target="_blank">emanl.245@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dear Pedro,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Shortly after the Vienna Summit, I was invited to submit an extended version of my conference paper for a publication in the Special Issue of the Information journal "Selected Papers from the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015". <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It took me a lot of time to prepare the manuscript, but in the end, it was submitted to the journal. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Soon afterwards, I was informed that “your manuscript has been declined for publication in Information”. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">No comments, no further explanations – I have some previous experience with publishing selected conference papers in revered journals but that is my first encounter with such invited paper treatment style.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Never mind, I have published the article in the Research Gate. Because its subject is closely related to the discussion we held on the FIS forum in October 2015, I dare to provide a link to this RG publication (may be the issue is still interested for some FIS partakers).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291352419_The_brain_is_processing_information_not_data_Does_anybody_knows_about_that" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291352419_The_brain_is_processing_information_not_data_Does_anybody_knows_about_that</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Emanuel Diamant.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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