Re: BMJ article on Editorial Misconduct

[David Goodman <dgoodman@princeton.edu>]

Is Paul W Taylor still at Elsevier? 
If so, would he like to comment?

(According to this article, he is the senior editor at Elsevier who
responsible for having made the indefensible request to "physically remove
the article" and, presumably, is similarly responsible for the equally
indefensible removal of the article from the online version.)

Has Elsevier any contractual committment that prevents it from restoring
the article?  If they continue to omit it, I suggest they owe it to the
scientific commun ity to prove that they are unable to.  That the Society
might seek an alternative publisher is hardly an adequate reason;
continued association with the Society does Elsevier no credit.

In my personal opinion, 
 
Dr. David Goodman
Princeton University Library
and
Associate Professor,
Palmer School of Library & Information Science, Long Island University
dgoodman@princeton.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: T Scott Plutchak <tscott@uab.edu>
Date: Friday, June 6, 2003 3:

59 pm
Sub ject: BMJ article on Editorial Misconduct

> Readers of this list may be interested in this article
> (http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7401/1262) and editorial
> (http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7401/1224) from the British 
> MedicalJournal, which discuss the Human Immunology 
> retraction/removal incident
> from the standpoint of editorial ethics.
> 
> T. Scott Plutchak
> tscott@uab.edu