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

[Phil Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

I don't want to detract from David Goodman's argument for refunds, but
need to correct one fact, "Online Information Review" reprinted at least
one review originally submitted to "Reference Reviews".  The author is a
colleague of mine at Cornell and she also could not remember granting
permission for republication.  It was a shock to find her article
published twice.

The Canadian encyclopedia
Horne, Angela (reviewer)
Online Information Review; Volume 26 No. 6 pp.431-432; 2002

The Canadian encyclopedia
Horne, Angela (reviewer)
Reference Reviews; Volume 16 No. 6 pp. 49-50; 2002

Your question about refunds will need to be answered by management at
Emerald.

--Phil Davis


At 05:29 PM 11/15/2004 -0500, David Goodman wrote:
>Dear Phil,
>
>It would be equally constructive and honorable if Emerald were to state
>simply and directly that it intended to refund the money specifically paid
>twice for the articles concerned.  It has not yet even said that.
>
>As for the authors, I was the author of one paper in Online Information
>Review. I considered that a respectable journal, and it does not seem to
>have been involved in any reprinting. Had I known it was published by a
>publisher engaged in such practices, I would not have published it there.
>That one of my articles was published in a journal from such a publisher
>will not help my career as much as anticipated.
>
>Aslib, in a move that caused some controversy at the time, transferred its
>publications (Journal of Documentation and Aslib Proceedings) to Emerald.
>I cannot imagine that they would have done so if they had known the
>publisher's practices.  I can certainly say that I was in fact considering
>Aslib Proceedings for a paper that I am currently finishing--I shall not
>send it there. Once bitten is bad enough.
>
>Dr. David Goodman
>Associate Professor
>Palmer School of Library and Information Science
>Long Island University
>dgoodman@liu.edu