Re: Covert Article Republishing Discovered in Emerald/MCB UP 1989-2003

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <chief-exec@alpsp.org>]

I think Liblicense readers need to know that this all happened in the
past.  As we all know, MCB University Press used to have a poor
reputation. The new team which joined a few years ago has made enormous
strides to remedy this and deserve congratulations for doing so.  They
have made no attempt to defend their predecessors' republication policy
and have both stopped it and done all they can to ensure that the
electronic record is clarified.  Can't we move on?

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK

Phone:  +44 (0)1903 871686 Fax:  +44 (0)1903 871457
E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org
ALPSP Website  http://www.alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Davis" <pmd8@cornell.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:59 AM
Subject: RE: Covert Article Republishing Discovered in Emerald/MCB UP 
1989-2003

> Based on my investigation, the authors reported that they did not resubmit
> their articles to another Emerald/MCB UP journal but had received a
> request from the publisher for permission to republish.  Did the academic
> editors know?  In many cases that I could document, they did not.  If they
> DID know and had followed editorial policy -- which was to peer review
> each submission -- we would have seen slightly different articles being
> published.  But we didn't.  In all of the 409 examples I discovered, the
> two (or three) republished articles were verbatim copies (save some copy
> editing and reformatting).  One editor of a management journal stated (on
> condition of anonymity), "I can categorically state that when I was the
> editor I was not aware of any such practice, and would neither condone nor
> practice such republication."
>
> To answer your question, it appears that editors (at least in some
> documented cases) did not know of the duplicate republishing.
>
> --Phil Davis