RE: May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

["Ken Masters" <kmasters@ithealthed.com>]

Hi All

I know of only one case that comes close to what Sandy describes, 
although it was not the EXclusion, rather the INclusion of an 
article. Open Chemical Physics Journal (Bentham) published a 
paper dealing with explosives in the World Trade Center, and it 
turned out that the article was included by the publishers 
without the editors' knowledge, and without any peer review. 
Because of that breach, the editor resigned.

Of course, there were also the 6 fake "Australasian" journals 
published by Elsevier - why bother inserting articles into a 
journal when you can just create the entire journal :-).


Regards

Ken

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Dr. Ken Masters
Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics
Medical Education Unit
College of Medicine & Health Sciences
Sultan Qaboos University
Sultanate of Oman
E-i-C: The Internet Journal of Medical Education

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
> From: "AlanSingleton" <editor@alpsp.org>
> Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 8:12 am
> To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
>
> 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 Singleton
> Editor
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sandy Thatcher
> Sent: 14 May 2010 05:09
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> Subject: Re: May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
>
> From: Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> 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