Elsevier confirms 6 fake journals; more comments

["Hamaker, Charles" <cahamake@uncc.edu>]

See Peter Suber's blog for more on elsevier's fake journals: 
Elsevier confirms 6 fake journals; more comments

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/05/elsevier-confirms-6-fake-journals-more.html

I have a few questions for Elsevier too, beyond the 6 titles 
they've acknowledged. But I'm no longer sure who to refer them 
too, so I thought I'd just ask with this posting.

There are at least a couple Elsevier journals published clearly 
with industry backing, -from Worldcat.

Diamet : diabetes metabolism.
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16530508&referer=3Dbrief_results
by Hoechst AG.; Excerpta Medica (Firm). Medical Communications
Division.;

Publisher: [Amsterdam] : Published by Excerpta Medica for Hoechst AG,
published at least from 1987 to 1995.

The question I have on this title is was this just a compilation 
title ie. pulling articles from other journals, or did it publish 
original research? I ask because at it was published in multiple 
languages, Spanish, French, German, English, Italian.  At least 
it apparently acknowledged affiliation.

There was also:

Pathways : the Novartis journal
Author:  Novartis.
Publisher:  Almere : Excerpta Medica Medical Communications, 
2000-2004.

What kind of journal was this??? It shows about 15 citations in 
Google Scholar, so someone used it as source material.  Was it 
just a house organ for Novartis?

Then there are titles that only show holdings at one library, like

New trends in rheumatology.Publisher:  Amsterdam [etc.] : 
Excerpta Medica, Medical Communications Division, 1987-...

Or

Everyday problems in clinical cardiology.
Publisher:  Leiderdorp : Reed Healthcare Communications, 
1990-2003

What are these titles anyway? Or what were they? Both of these seem to
show citations in google scholar.

Also there are titles held by no libraries such as:

Oncology update.
Publisher:  Marrickville, N.S.W. : Excerpta Medica 
Communications, 2003-

(which shows a prepublication ISSN,) maybe it was an idea that 
didn't make it? There are any number of these titles from 
Marrickville N.S.W. that show prepub ISSN's but no holdings. Were 
they really every published? Or just registered for ISSN's in 
case they got sponsorships?

Chuck Hamaker