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

["David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>]

Strictly speaking, I think that it would be better to say that it has been
demonstrated that nobody reads _two_ Emerald journals.

It is still possibile that some people read an individual one regularly. I
rather doubt that the citations to individual articles will be high enough
to draw valid conclusions.

If one wonders how they can sustain publishing at such low apparent
readership, I recommend a look at their price list:
http://puck.emeraldinsight.com/vl=1413863/cl=38/nw=1/rpsv/pricelist/us/usprice.htm

Competing interest: I once published an article in their Online
information review. They've consulted me subsequenly on pricing and did
not much care for my answer.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
dgoodman@liu.edu

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Subject: RE: Covert Article Republishing Discovered in Emerald/MCB UP  1989-2003
 
Or perhaps one may infer that the browsing/reading of entire issues of any
given journal is a thing of the past.

Perhaps this goes to show that article level access is truly the preferred
model of information/research delivery and that the construct of the
journal as a whole is dying out.

An interesting tangent study could be done to see which of the two
republished articles was indexed most and thus ended up being cited most
often.

Jill Emery
University of Houston