RE: Merck published fake journal

["Kosecki, Stan" <Stan.Kosecki@ARS.USDA.GOV>]

David,

According to May 7, 2009 statement by Michael Hansen, CEO Of Elsevier's
Health Sciences Division,
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_01203

" [...] We are currently conducting an internal review but 
believe this was an isolated practice from a past period in 
time."

--Stan Kosecki


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Subject: RE: Merck published fake journal

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]