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{{Infobox dot-com company | name = Omniscriptum Publishing | logo = File:OmniScriptum_Logo.jpg | company_type = | foundation = 2002 | founder = Wolfgang Philipp Müller | location_city = [[Chișinău]] | location_country = [[Moldova]] | area_served = [[World]]wide | key_people = Ieva Konstantinova {{small|([[chief executive officer|CEO]])}} | num_employees = 200 (''2018'') | industry = [[Publishing]] | subsid = '''[[Publishing house]]s''':<br>VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Palmarium Academic Publishing, Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften, Verlag Classic Edition, EUE Editions Universitaires Européennes, Doyen Verlag, Fromm Verlag, Saarbrücker Verlag für Rechtswissenschaften | revenue = | operating_income = | url = {{URL|https://www.omniscriptum.com}} | language = English, German, Spanish, Russian, French }}

'''Omniscriptum Publishing Group''', formerly known as '''VDM Verlag Dr. Müller''', is a German [[publishing company|publishing group]] headquartered in [[Chișinău]], Moldova.<ref name="VDM_2009">{{cite web|url=https://www.omniscriptum.com|publisher=Omniscriptum Publishing|title=Omniscriptum official website}}</ref> Founded in 2002 in [[Düsseldorf]],<ref name="VDM_2007">{{cite web|url=http://doc-00-ag-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/secure/rb76hs62dof3nkvdingba5cedl9ltjag/p5ph3um9rpqj067ahcen6u0slpsoons0/1266732000000/05909328212221048879/*/0B-UxMdaDBeE_MTIwMmFiMTktOWY4Mi00MGJkLTk5ZjYtNDc4NjczMDY3ZTNh?e=open|title=VDM Verlag Dr. Müller e.K. Company Profile 2007 version|access-date=8 February 2010|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5nhodkTUt?url=http://doc-00-ag-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/secure/rb76hs62dof3nkvdingba5cedl9ltjag/p5ph3um9rpqj067ahcen6u0slpsoons0/1266732000000/05909328212221048879/*/0B-UxMdaDBeE_MTIwMmFiMTktOWY4Mi00MGJkLTk5ZjYtNDc4NjczMDY3ZTNh?e=open|archive-date=21 February 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> its book production is based on [[print on demand|print-to-order]] technology.

The company publishes theses, research notes, and dissertations through its [[e-commerce]] bookstores.<ref name="VDM_2009" /> The [[CRIStin#Norwegian Scientific Index|Norwegian Scientific Index]] lists both Omniscriptum (as Verlag Dr. Müller) and its subsidiary Lambert Academic Publishing are designated as failing to qualify as academic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/KanalForlagInfo.action?id=21377 |title=Publiseringskanaler: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG |publisher=HK Direktoratet for høyere utdanning og kompetansu | access-date=20 December 2025 | lang=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/forlag?id=23044 |title=Publiseringskanaler: Lambert Academic Publishing |publisher=HK Direktoratet for høyere utdanning og kompetansu | access-date=20 December 2025 | lang=no}}</ref>{{Efn|text=This is seen from their {{Lang|no|Nivå}} ('Level')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/informasjonsartikler/nivaer-og-nivaendringer |title=Nivåer og nivåendringer |publisher=HK Direktoratet for høyere utdanning og kompetansu | access-date=20 December 2025 | lang=no}}</ref> of 0, year after year. By contrast, [[Elsevier]] qualifies ("1");<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/forlag?id=18173 |title=Publiseringskanaler: Elsevier |publisher=HK Direktoratet for høyere utdanning og kompetansu | access-date=20 December 2025 | lang=no}}</ref> [[Cambridge University Press]] qualifies with distinction ("2").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/forlag?id=18118 |title=Publiseringskanaler: Cambridge University Press |publisher=HK Direktoratet for høyere utdanning og kompetansu | access-date=20 December 2025 | lang=no}}</ref>}} Lambert Academic Publishing has also been described as the "most dominating" among "[[predatory publishing|predatory publishers]] that seek out authors of new theses", a [[vanity press]] which does "not apply the basic standards of academic publishing such as peer-review, editorial or proof-reading processes".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://library.bond.edu.au/intl/news/46287/your-thesis-and-predatory-publisher | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315005812/https://library.bond.edu.au/intl/news/46287/your-thesis-and-predatory-publisher | title=Your Thesis and the Predatory Publisher |publisher=Bond University Library |date=13 March 2015 |archive-date=15 March 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The company also offers print-to order publishing for fiction authors. It previously specialized in publishing and selling [[Wikipedia]] articles, but has stated that the practice of publishing Wikipedia content ended in 2013.<ref name=wikipub/>

== History == The group's first [[publishing house]] was founded in [[Düsseldorf]] in 2002 by Wolfgang Philipp Müller and relocated to [[Saarbrücken]] in August 2005.<ref name=VDM_2007/> The Mauritian office was established in April 2007 and was managed from 2008 up until May 2011 by David Benoit Novel,<ref>{{cite web|title=New managing director for VDM/Mauritius|work=vdm-publishing.com|access-date=16 June 2011|url=http://www.vdm-publishing.com/index.php?&act=nav&nav=10040|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518004101/http://www.vdm-publishing.com/index.php?&act=nav&nav=10040|archive-date=18 May 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=David Benoit Novel übernimmt Geschäftsführung von VDM Publishing House|language=de|work=Buchmarkt.de|publisher=[[:de:Buchmarkt (Fachzeitschrift)|BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH]]|location=[[Meerbusch]], Germany|access-date=18 June 2011|url=http://www.buchmarkt.de/content/34903-david-benoit-novel-uebernimmt-geschaeftsfuehrung-von-vdm-publishing-house.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722112448/http://www.buchmarkt.de/content/34903-david-benoit-novel-uebernimmt-geschaeftsfuehrung-von-vdm-publishing-house.htm|archive-date=22 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> followed by Reezwan Ghanty.<ref name=VDMPHdir>{{cite web|title=About Us: Directors & Acquisition editors|work=Bookmarketservice.com|publisher=International Book Market Service Ltd.|location=Beau-Bassin, Mauritius|access-date=20 August 2011|year=2011|url=http://www.bookmarketservice.com/about.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512030503/http://bookmarketservice.com/about.html|archive-date=12 May 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2007, the group began distributing its publications through [[Lightning Source]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vdm-verlag.de/index.php?&act=nav&nav=2|title=16.07.2008 VDM zu Besuch bei Lightning Source, UK|work=vdm-verlag.de|publisher=VDM Publishing|location=Saarbrücken|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015005932/http://www.vdm-verlag.de/index.php?&act=nav&nav=2|archive-date=15 October 2007|access-date=3 August 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]],<ref name=VDM_Amazon.com>{{cite web|url=http://www.offenes-presseportal.de/medien_kommunikation/vdm_verlag_erweitert_sein_angebot_kostenloser_buchveroeffentlichungen_mit_isbn_19773.htm|title=VDM Verlag erweitert sein Angebot kostenloser Buchveröffentlichungen mit ISBN|date=8 June 2007|publisher=Offenes-Presseportal.de|location=Germany|language=de|access-date=27 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719070409/http://www.offenes-presseportal.de/medien_kommunikation/vdm_verlag_erweitert_sein_angebot_kostenloser_buchveroeffentlichungen_mit_isbn_19773.htm|archive-date=19 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the German company Books on Demand.<ref>{{cite web|title=Verlage: VDM Verlag und Books on Demand kooperieren|work=Boersenblatt.net|language=de|access-date=12 December 2011|url=http://www.boersenblatt.net/140837|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426050508/http://www.boersenblatt.net/140837/|archive-date=26 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=VDM_BoD_2007>{{cite web|url=http://www.bod.ch/12-april-2007.html|title=Pressemitteilungen: Norderstedt, 12 April 2007, VDM und BoD starten Kooperation|date=12 April 2007|publisher=bod.ch|location=Norderstedt|language=de|access-date=27 February 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20100227205616/http://www.bod.ch/12-april-2007.html|archive-date=27 February 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Products and services == Omniscriptum specializes in [[German language|German]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]],<ref name="pua2011-01-12">{{cite web|url=https://www.eae-publishing.com/catalog/index|title=Editorial Académica Española}}</ref> [[French language|French]], and English [[dissertation]]s, [[thesis|theses]], and research projects.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lap-publishing.com|title=LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing}}</ref><ref name="EUE pourquoi">{{cite web|url=https://www.editions-ue.com/why-choose-us/|title=Pourquoi nous?|language=fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113210658/https://www.editions-ue.com/why-choose-us/|archive-date=13 November 2018|url-status=dead|access-date=2 April 2010}}</ref> Its business model involves a team of [[Commissioning editor|acquisitions editors]] who search the internet for academic authors and invite them to submit their manuscripts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Acquisition Editor|work=mu.3wjobs.com|publisher=W3 Ltd|location=[[Hyde, Cheshire]]|access-date=26 August 2010|url=http://mu.3wjobs.com/votOI.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317163245/http://mu.3wjobs.com/votOI.html|archive-date=17 March 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="ForumVDM4/2008">{{cite journal|title=Melissa Corlett from Mauritius describes her workday at VDM|url=https://doc-00-3g-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/secure/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/rfe1s1csj0697sb1pjohnrsl3i3nlpn7/1284206400000/05909328212221048879/*/0B-UxMdaDBeE_YjlkYjcyMmEtMWUxNS00YmI3LWFiZjgtNjM4MzE3OWY3MWEw?authkey=CMD95hM|journal=Forum VDM}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="ForumVDM1/2009">{{cite journal|last1=Fabian|first1=Emese|year=2009|title=The fabulous life of an acquisition editor|journal=Forum VDM|publisher=VDM Publishing|issue=1/2009|pages=12–13|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:HlbLyFL3S-cJ:www.lap-publishing.com/downloads/ForumVDM_Q1_2009.pdf+dr+wolfgang+mueller+amazon&hl=en&gl=fr&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiY2ADfQFnSD4OxllMVJbwJtRQPmpnZcfHemLesiavYAks2KzhfQOxX0hUFhK4x-cg0Ie6PC8gliJa-61lWL7-wzn3Pg0lP-Z6W5S4qXXoWffg3hcUv9YANoTrj1DBtx1vHJIKM&sig=AHIEtbQb6DM5swzkLMhYdhsIk1UfZaQjqw|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5sfM1C6tj?url=https://doc-14-3g-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/secure/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/nrq03kl867a0mhgen4n9n07mlm31j4bb/1284206400000/05909328212221048879/*/14XDut3OHDiDEyDeEDOdOQqIVbVO5ngikUBdq1_5ONoG0o8PRUIt-1MYbYONs?authkey=CITX-ZoE&e=open|archive-date=11 September 2010|format=PDF|url-status=dead}}</ref> The editorial team sends emails to people who have written a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation and whose college library has a web-accessible catalog.<ref name=Pacte_CNRS>{{cite web|last=Morel|first=Catherine|title=Pactualités n°15. Discussions autour des Editions universitaires européennes qui prospectent auprès des doctorants|work=Pacte.cnrs.fr|publisher=[[CNRS]]|location=[[Grenoble]]|language=fr|access-date=17 September 2010|url=http://www.pacte.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article2413|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720213240/http://www.pacte.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article2413|archive-date=20 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In April 2010, Omniscriptum founded an imprint devoted to [[religion]], [[spirituality]], and [[Christian theology]]: ''Fromm Verlag''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Willkommen beim Fromm Verlag – Der Fromm Verlag publiziert Bücher aus den Bereichen Religion, Spiritualität, christliche Theologie und Lebenshilfe.|language=de|work=Frommverlag.de|publisher=Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften (VDM Publishing)|access-date=29 August 2010|url=http://www.frommverlag.de/index.php?&act=nav&nav=1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240525002511/https://www.webcitation.org/5sHrehoFG?url=http://www.frommverlag.de/index.php%3F&act=nav&nav=1|archive-date=25 May 2024|url-status=dead}}</ref> In October 2010 ''Dictus Publishing'' was launched to publish political texts related to the [[European Union]].<ref name="Dictus_home">{{cite web|url=https://www.dictus-publishing.eu|title=Dictus Publishing}}</ref>

=== Business practices === Omniscriptum's business practices have been questioned for profiting from the sale of unacclaimed works. In November 2009, an article in the newspaper ''[[Berner Zeitung]]'' faulted Omniscriptum for not disclosing that the books it was publishing were academic dissertations and for charging high prices.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bernhard|first1=Niklaus|last2=Müller|first2=Philippe|title=Wenn die Etikette schwindelt|language=de|work=[[Berner Zeitung]]|location=[[Bern]]|access-date=5 August 2010|url=http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/schweiz/standard/Wenn-die-Etikette-schwindelt/story/10946017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203052323/http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/schweiz/standard/Wenn-die-Etikette-schwindelt/story/10946017|archive-date=3 February 2011|url-status=dead}} And: {{cite web|url=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/buecher/Die-grosse-Geldmacherei-mit-Diplomarbeiten/story/31646682|title=Die grosse Geldmacherei mit Diplomarbeiten|publisher=[[Tages-Anzeiger|Tagesanzeiger.ch]]|access-date=3 August 2010}}</ref> American writer [[Victoria Strauss]] characterized OMS as "an academic [[author mill]]",<ref name=Strauss_VDM>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfwa.org/2009/09/victoria-strauss-vdm-verlag-dr-mueller|title=VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller|author=Strauss, Victoria|author-link=Victoria Strauss|date=14 September 2009|publisher=[[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America|SFWA]]|access-date=10 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728013036/http://www.sfwa.org/2009/09/victoria-strauss-vdm-verlag-dr-mueller/|archive-date=28 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2009/09/victoria-strauss-vdm-verlag-dr-mueller.html Writer Beware Blog] Official Blog of [[Writer Beware]].</ref><ref name=Strauss_PA_VDM>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfwa.org/2009/10/author-mills-and-a-request-for-contact|title=Author Mills and a Request for Contact|author=Strauss, Victoria|author-link=Victoria Strauss|date=21 October 2009|publisher=[[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America|SFWA]]|access-date=27 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025222105/http://www.sfwa.org/2009/10/author-mills-and-a-request-for-contact/|archive-date=25 October 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> while [[Pagan Kennedy]] notes that OMS's practices are comparable to a form of [[kudzu]] weed proliferation in book publishing.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kennedy|first=Pagan|author-link=Pagan Kennedy|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/do-androids-dream-of-electric-authors.html|title=Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=30 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607062713/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/do-androids-dream-of-electric-authors.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all|archive-date=7 June 2022|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In January 2011, German professor Debora Weber-Wulff, in ''Copy, Shake, and Paste'' (a blog about plagiarism and scientific misconduct), referred to OMS as a spam publisher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guide2research.com/news-events/avoid-omniscriptum-to-re-publish-your-thesis-and-other-scientific-papers|title=Avoid OmniScriptum to re-publish your thesis and other scientific papers|website=guide2research.com|access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref>

== Wikipedia content duplication == Branches of the company, including '''Alphascript Publishing''' (April 2009),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buchreport.de/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilungen/datum/2009/04/14/neuester-verlag-der-vdm-gruppe.htm|title=Neuester Verlag der VDM Gruppe (Alphascript Publishing)|date=14 April 2009|work=[[:de:Buchreport|Buchreport.de]]|publisher=[[:de:Harenberg Verlag|Harenberg Kommunikation Verlags- und Medien-GmbH & Co. KG]]|location=[[Dortmund]], Germany|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306003500/http://www.buchreport.de/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilungen/datum/2009/04/14/neuester-verlag-der-vdm-gruppe.htm|archive-date=6 March 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=3 August 2010}}</ref> '''Betascript Publishing''' (January 2010), '''Fastbook Publishing''' (July 2009),<ref name="Fastbook_creation">{{cite web|url=https://www.omniscriptum.com|title=Academic Brands}}</ref> and '''Doyen Verlag''', have published books consisting of compilations of Wikipedia articles.<ref name="SchlieterTaz">{{cite web|url=http://www.taz.de/!74646|title=Schröpfen on demand|last=Kai Schlieter|work=Taz.de|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720010001/http://www.taz.de/!74646/|archive-date=20 July 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=18 August 2011}}</ref> These books have been purchased or acquired by various libraries and academic institutions in Europe<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wikipedia-kompilationen-bullshit-amen-okay-1.1015680|title=Wikipedia-Kompilationen: "Bullshit, amen, okay"|last=Nohn|first=Corinna|date=25 October 2010 |publisher=[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019041045/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/2.220/wikipedia-kompilationen-bullshit-amen-okay-1.1015680|archive-date=19 October 2012|url-status=live|access-date=2 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=VQ3DJ1LA&sectionid=ade2fcd1-d54a-4b66-8035-5e2786d58061|title=Gratis goudmijn in Wikipedia|last=Vankersschaever|first=Sarah|work=[[De Standaard]]|access-date=12 August 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115030541/http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=VQ3DJ1LA&sectionid=ade2fcd1-d54a-4b66-8035-5e2786d58061|archive-date=15 January 2013|url-status=live|location=Brussels|language=nl-be}}</ref> and Asia. [[File:Alphascript Publishing book by Miller FP Vandome AF McBrewster J. A scanned example. History of Ghana. Copy and paste from wikipedia.pdf|thumb|upright|''History of Ghana'': a collection of Wikipedia articles published as a book|alt=]]

The titles were published as edited by Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, and John McBrewster, who are listed as authors. {{As of|2011|12|21}}, 180,818 titles were listed on the OMS bookshop.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.morebooks.de/books/us/published_by/alphascript-publishing/2/products?escape=false&limit=1000&page=1|title=Alphascript Publishing – 180818 Products (1000 most recent titles)|work=Morebooks.de|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240525155306/https://www.webcitation.org/645q7WPMn?url=https://www.morebooks.de/books/us/published_by/alphascript-publishing/2/products%3Fescape=false&limit=1000&page=1|archive-date=25 May 2024|url-status=dead|access-date=21 December 2011}}</ref> Betascript lists {{ill|Lambert M. Surhone|de}}, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, Mariam T. Tennoe, and Susan F. Henssonow as editors, giving an additional 356,765 titles {{As of|2011|12|21|lc=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.morebooks.de/books/us/published_by/betascript-publishing/1/products?escape=false&limit=1000&page=1|title=Betascript Publishing – 356765 Products (1000 most recent titles)}}</ref>

Regarding its publishing, Alphascript asserted that: "There is hardly another platform for quick and better processing of information than Wikipedia" for customers "who want to be informed on a specific subject" in book form, though they can "have online everything [[free of charge]]".<ref name="alphascriptphilosophy">{{cite web|url=http://www.alphascript-publishing.com/index.php?&act=nav&nav=10049|title=Alphascript Publishing: philosophy|work=Alphascript-publishing.com|publisher=VDM Publishing House|location=Beau-Bassin, Mauritius|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707120057/http://www.alphascript-publishing.com/index.php?&act=nav&nav=10049|archive-date=7 July 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=21 February 2010}}</ref><ref name="Schmalstieg">{{cite web|url=http://ms-studio.net/blog/the-wikipedia-ecosystem-expands|title=The Wikipedia ecosystem expands (or: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly)|last=Schmalstieg|first=Manuel|date=26 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131190822/http://ms-studio.net/blog/the-wikipedia-ecosystem-expands/|archive-date=31 January 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=3 April 2010}}</ref><ref name="betascript_WS">{{cite web|url=http://www.betascript-publishing.com/index.php?&act=nav&nav=10039|title=Welcome to Betascript Publishing|work=Betascript-publishing.com|publisher=VDM Publishing House|location=Beau-Bassin, Mauritius|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316053742/http://www.betascript-publishing.com/index.php?&act=nav&nav=10039|archive-date=16 March 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=10 February 2010}}</ref>

Omniscriptum has edited 22,000 works.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://plagiatsgutachten.de/blog.php/eine-warnung-bucher-mit-kopierten-wikipedia-artikeln-nun-auch-in-uni-bibliotheken|title=Blog für wissenschaftliche Redlichkeit – Eine Warnung: Bücher mit kopierten Wikipedia-Artikeln nun auch in Uni-Bibliotheken|last=Weber|first=Stefan|author-link=:de:Stefan Weber (Medienwissenschaftler)|work=Plagiatsgutachten.de|language=de|trans-title=Blog for academic honesty – One caveat: books copied from Wikipedia articles now available in university libraries|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010182739/http://plagiatsgutachten.de/blog.php/eine-warnung-bucher-mit-kopierten-wikipedia-artikeln-nun-auch-in-uni-bibliotheken/|archive-date=10 October 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=28 April 2011}}</ref>

According to the company, the last compilation of Wikipedia articles was published in 2013. The company stated that it stopped the practice of publishing Wikipedia content in order to focus on "original academic (and) special interest authors."<ref name=wikipub>{{cite web |title=FAQcriticism – OmniScriptum Publishing |url=https://www.omniscriptum.com/faqcriticism/ |website=www.omniscriptum.com |access-date=7 December 2018 |archive-date=19 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250119021135/https://www.omniscriptum.com/faqcriticism/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== See also == {{div col}} * [[commons:File:Alphascript Publishing book by Miller FP Vandome AF McBrewster J. A scanned example. History of Ghana. Copy and paste from wikipedia.pdf|Alphascript Publishing book by Miller FP, Vandome AF, McBrewster J: a scanned example]] * [[Books LLC]] * [[Ingram Content Group]] * [[Philip M. Parker]] * [[Print on demand]] {{div col end}}

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