RE: May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

["AlanSingleton" <editor@alpsp.org>]

I thought Pippa's remark was spot on. In forty (!) years I can't 
recall an intervention of the kind Sandy speculates on - can 
anyone? Now that I'm an editor rather than publisher, I perhaps 
have more sympathy for the editor than before, because my only 
case of intervention was actually with an editor, not an author. 
This editor, of a 'hard science' journal, took over his editorial 
to have a rant about the British Royal Family which, I must 
admit, I thought was a bit 'out of scope' for the subject matter.

Alan


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Editor
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From: Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

I should think that it falls within the scope of a publisher's business
decision making to exclude certain categories of articles if they believe
that including them in their journals will do economic damage to them. The
editors, of course, may object, and they are always free to disassociate
themselves from any journal whose publisher takes this stance.

Sandy Thatcher