RE: Merck published fake journal

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

Irony lovers will enjoy going back to 2004 and re-reading the 
evidence Crispin Davis, former CEO of Reed Elsevier, gave to the 
UK House of Commons Committee on Science and Technology. Right in 
the middle of this interesting practice Sir Crispin was 
commenting on the quality and objectivity safeguards of the 
subscription models - safeguards that would be undermined by open 
access.  He also mentioned that 25% of Elsevier revenue came form 
the commercial sector, including Merck.  We now know how that 
came about.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/4030106.htm
(Answer to question 65)

The Financial Times report tells us that the bogus Australasian 
Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine last published in 2005.  Can 
anybody from Elsevier reading the list tell us when the last time 
a similar journal was published?

David

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Wednesday's US edition (May 6, 2009) of Financial Times has a story on
this topic. --Stan Kosecki

"Elsevier admits journal error" By Salamander Davoudi and Andrew
Jack in London Published: May 5 2009 22:42 | Last updated: May 5
2009 22:42
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bab0fcf4-39a2-11de-b82d-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1