FW: Covert Article Republishing Discovered in Emerald/MCB UP

["Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>]

1989-2003
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Phil,

Well...we're working here from my memory of something that happened more
than six years ago, so be forewarned. I don't have any records of it.

It is my recollection that I was asked for my permission to republish a
paper that had been published in another Emerald/MCB journal. The person
asking my permission said that he thought that the readership of the
republishing journal would benefit from my paper. To the best of my
knowledge the editor did not mention anything about attribution. To be
honest, I don't think I thought about attribution one way or the other at
that time. Maybe I assumed they would automatically do it. I just don't
recall. I know I thought about attribution when it came to my list of
publications...I make it very clear that it was a republication and not an
additional paper.

You said "I can't seem to believe that you were in full knowledge of how
your work was going to be reprinted.  If you did, would you have given
your permission?" Well, yeah, I would have said "no" if the editor had
come to me and said "We want to republish your paper, and we want to keep
the republication a secret from our customers."

But that's not how it happened...

I'm not sure I get the point?

Bernie Sloan

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

Bernie, as an author of a duplicated Emerald/MCB paper, you mentioned that
you were contacted for permission to republish (and granted it).  Did you
know that the article was going to be republished without attribution?

I have no doubt that Emerald attempted to contact authors before
republishing their work.  I do question whether authors knew exactly how
their work was to be used.  As a prolific and well-respected author in
library sciences, I can't seem to believe that you were in full knowledge
of how your work was going to be reprinted.  If you did, would you have
given your permission?

--Phil Davis


At 06:10 PM 11/10/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>There's a blurb about this in the November 9 issue of Library Journal
>Academic Newswire. It notes the following about a response from Emerald's
>Gillian Crawford: "She explained that, from 1989 to 2000, articles
>considered 'to be of particular merit were occasionally published within
>another MCB journal where it was felt that their content would be of
>interest or benefit to the additional journal audience.' Crawford said
>there has been no 'deliberate dual publication' since 2001".
>
>I'll confess to being one of the authors with a "dual publication" in
>Emerald journals, from the late 1990s. Phil Davis asked me about it as he
>was doing his study this summer. In my case, the editor of the journal
>that did the second publication contacted me and asked if he could
>reprint it. I gave him my permission. Phil told me that there is no note
>on the later article indicating that it was reprinted from the original.
>
>My publications list has the article listed by the original citation,
>with a statement at the end that notes "Also reprinted in...".
>
>Bernie Sloan