Re: BMC titles indexing in NLM PubMed

["Peter Banks" <PBanks@diabetes.org>]

One might ask whether the members of the PubMed Central National Advisory
Committee (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/about/nac.html) have an overly
close relationship with members of the Board of Trustess of BMC
(http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/trustees). One person serves on
both bodies, and the PMC board has a member who has been a paid consultant
for the organization of a member of the BMC board.

I certainly don't know that the close relationship is the cause for the
seemingly preferential treatment you describe, but it does raise the
appearance of an inappropriate duality of interest that could be seen as
driving PMC practice.

Peter Banks
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