Chronicle article on republishing of scholarly articles

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i19/19a03102.htm
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>From the issue dated January 14, 2005 

A Cornell University librarian has found that a scholarly-journal
company's frequent republication of articles goes back longer than
initially thought.

ONLINE Evidence Suggests That Publisher's Reuse of Old Material Was More
Extensive Than Initially Thought
  
By SCOTT CARLSON
...

Mr. Davis decided to continue looking into Emerald after a company
representative told The Chronicle that republishing was "not a business
practice" and was done only occasionally, to give articles wider
readership, or else inadvertently.

...

For example, he found three articles that appeared in the European Journal
of Marketing in both 1984 and 1989. He found another article that was
published in Managerial Auditing Journal in 1999 and again in 2000. Mr.
Davis says he also found dozens of examples of republishing between 1979
and 1989

...

Gillian Crawford, a spokeswoman for Emerald, reiterated that republishing
was done only to disseminate articles to a wider audience.

If an article was "deemed of interest," she said, company officials
"thought that we were doing more good to make it available to another
audience." Republishing, she added, "was more ad hoc than a planned
activity."

However, when asked about articles that were republished in the same
journal only a few years apart, she responded, "The only thing I can say
to that is that a mistake has probably happened."

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