Re: Load balancing

[Phil Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

At 04:15 PM 11/21/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>It is standard practice to ask authors to certify that the paper has not
>simultaneously been submitted to any other journal.
>
>Sally Morris, Chief Executive
>Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
>E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org

Sally, Many publishers have policies to prevent multiple submissions by
the author and Emerald is no exception.  Emerald's submission policy
assumes that the content is original and that ownership of the content is
transferred from the author to the publisher.

Ex. "Articles submitted to the journal should be original contributions
and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the
same time. Authors submitting articles for publication warrant that the
work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and will indemnify
the publisher against any breach of such warranty. For ease of
dissemination and to ensure proper policing of use, papers and
contributions become the legal copyright of the publisher unless otherwise
agreed. Submissions should be submitted by e-mail or on disk to:"

    -- ASLIB PROCEEDINGS: NEW INFORMATION PERSPECTIVES, Notes for
Contributors

In addition, the copyright policy of Emerald is designed to:

"Protect authors' moral rights and their work from plagiarism, unlawful
copying and any other infringement of copyright."

Please note that the publisher's policies are set to protect the company
against unethical and illegal acts performed by the author such as
multiple submissions.  They do not state guidelines for what is acceptable
behavior once copyright permissions are transferred to the publisher.

--Phil Davis