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

[Phil Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

Bernie, as an author of a duplicated Emerald/MCB paper, you mentioned that
you were contacted for permission to republish (and granted it).  Did you
know that the article was going to be republished without attribution?

I have no doubt that Emerald attempted to contact authors before
republishing their work.  I do question whether authors knew exactly how
their work was to be used.  As a prolific and well-respected author in
library sciences, I can't seem to believe that you were in full knowledge
of how your work was going to be reprinted.  If you did, would you have
given your permission?

--Phil Davis


At 06:10 PM 11/10/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>There's a blurb about this in the November 9 issue of Library Journal
>Academic Newswire. It notes the following about a response from Emerald's
>Gillian Crawford: "She explained that, from 1989 to 2000, articles
>considered 'to be of particular merit were occasionally published within
>another MCB journal where it was felt that their content would be of
>interest or benefit to the additional journal audience.' Crawford said
>there has been no 'deliberate dual publication' since 2001".
>
>I'll confess to being one of the authors with a "dual publication" in
>Emerald journals, from the late 1990s. Phil Davis asked me about it as he
>was doing his study this summer. In my case, the editor of the journal
>that did the second publication contacted me and asked if he could
>reprint it. I gave him my permission. Phil told me that there is no note
>on the later article indicating that it was reprinted from the original.
>
>My publications list has the article listed by the original citation, with
>a statement at the end that notes "Also reprinted in...".
>
>Bernie Sloan