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

[Phil Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

There is some factual error on the part of Emerald's response (Dual
Publication : Emerald's Response by G. Crawford).  In her response, she
states that duplication occurred from 1989 to 2000.  This is incorrect.  
While I may concede that the examples I found in 2002 and 2003 may have
been mistakes, I discovered many duplications through the end of 2001.  
MCB changed its name to Emerald in June 2001, so this unethical behavior
is attributable to Emerald as well as MCB.

With regards to the fact that this happened in the past, this is correct.  
I am confident that Emerald has changed its ways and does not deliberately
republish articles without full attribution.  Enron, WorldCom and Archer
Daniels Midland and other examples of past corporate maleficence, but
these companies are being held accountable for their past wrongdoings.

My point is that the publishing industry (like every other industry)  
requires accountability.  Without accountability, there is no way to
prevent future unethical practices if companies feel that the library and
academic community will simply turn a blind eye.

--Phil Davis


At 05:58 PM 11/10/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>I think Liblicense readers need to know that this all happened in the
>past.  As we all know, MCB University Press used to have a poor
>reputation. The new team which joined a few years ago has made enormous
>strides to remedy this and deserve congratulations for doing so.  They
>have made no attempt to defend their predecessors' republication policy
>and have both stopped it and done all they can to ensure that the
>electronic record is clarified.  Can't we move on?
>
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