Re: Does BMC's business model conflict with Editorial Independence?

[Richard Feinman <RFeinman@downstate.edu>]

"Accepting everything you are offered is never a good strategy" 
and is not any fun. One reason people become editors and/or 
willing to be reviewers without remuneration is that we actually 
like to read good science (can you imagine?)  The absolute bane 
of these jobs is that you have to read a lot of bad papers. 
Nobodies going to go looking for them.

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"Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>
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Re: Does BMC's business model conflict with Editorial   Independence?

While it is true that a new journal does need to solicit MSS in 
order to get established, its editor and publisher are all too 
well aware that unless these are of high quality, the journal 
will never actually make it.  They therefore spend a lot of 
effort soliciting articles from the best authors they can. 
Accepting everything you are offered is never a good strategy.

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org