Re: Merck published fake journal

[Phil Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

David,

According to OCLC's World Cat, the only library with a copy is 
the State Library of New South Wales, probably added to their 
collection because they received a free copy.

Given that these "journals" were not sold, but rather given away 
freely, I wonder whether such non-commercial compilations could 
be done using Open Access articles under the Creative Commons 
License.  All that would be needed is proper attribution to to 
the author and original source.

--Phil


David Prosser wrote:

> Irony lovers will enjoy going back to 2004 and re-reading the 
> evidence Crispin Davis, former CEO of Reed Elsevier, gave to 
> the UK House of Commons Committee on Science and Technology. 
> Right in the middle of this interesting practice Sir Crispin 
> was commenting on the quality and objectivity safeguards of the 
> subscription models - safeguards that would be undermined by 
> open access.  He also mentioned that 25% of Elsevier revenue 
> came form the commercial sector, including Merck.  We now know 
> how that came about.

[SNIP]