Ethics and publishing

We have a seminar coming up on 22 Sept in bond on
Publication 
Ethics - see http
://www.alpsp.org/events/2006/PET/default.htm

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Morrison" <heathermeln.bc.ca>
To: <liblicense-llists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:42 PM
Subject: Ethics and publishing

> Can we all agree that ethics is an important component
of 
> scholarly publishing - whether open access or not?
>
> There are business practices and editorial policies
that might 
> tend to favor ethical practices.  Most of these factors
will be 
> exactly the same for all publishers, whether open
access or 
> not.
>
> Relying heavily on advertising revenue from a
commercial 
> interest which could have a vested interest in the
published 
> outcome of research studies, for example, leaves a
journal open 
> to editorial interference.  Avoiding such reliance is a
good 
> idea - whether a journal is open access, or not.
>
> So many journals are hybrids nowadays anyways -
partially open 
> access, OA choices, free back issues, etc. - that it
may not 
> make much sense anymore to distinguish OA and non-OA 
> publishing.
>
> chrs,
>
> Heather G. Morrison
> http://poeticecon
omics.blogspot.com