Re: Load balancing

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

It is standard practice to ask authors to certify that the paper has not
simultaneously been submitted to any other journal.

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Davis" <pmd8@cornell.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: Load balancing

> Sally (and other publishers on this list)
>
> Does your organization have mechanisms in place to make sure that articles
> are only considered in one journal at any one time?  And, based on your
> experience as a publisher, what other process controls were set up to
> prevent article duplication?
>
> Chuck has raised a very important issue dealing with process control.
> While I'm sure that no other publisher wants to recreate what I've
> discovered in Emerald/MCB UP, a constructive discussion about what
> publishers can do to prevent a reoccurrence of this phenomenon has been
> missing.  Emerald has publicly apologized for their actions but provide no
> details that things have changed in-house.
>
> --Phil Davis