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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:17:06 +0300
From: Alexei Koudinov <sparcoaforum@neurobiologyoflipids.org>
Subject: [SOAF] Does Assoc Am Publishers serve to guard integrity of scientific publication?

Barbara J. Meredith,
Vice President
Professional/Scholarly Publishing
Association of American Publishers, Inc.
71 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10003-3004

cc: Sara Brandwein, Director

Dear Ms. Meredith,

Thank you for your reply on my e.mail of August 1, 2004 (Subject: "Lets
Set the Record Straight About Academic Journal Publishing").

Your e.mail letter reminded that Association of American Publishers' (AAP)
report "Setting the Record Straight About Academic Journal Publishing" is
a public document (see below), but sadly showed no intention to talk on
the integrity of scientific publication, that my previous e.mail
explicitly asked you about.

I worry that one could interpret the lack of your determination on this
matter as AAP endorsement of a publisher wrongdoing. In my view the lack
of your response on the UK Parliamentary inquiry written evidence on
Editorial and Publisher corruption by major STM titles would catch public
interest in biomedical publication completely off guard. Is this what
scientific and lay public deserve from the AAP?

I send the copy of this communication to Public Library of Science (PLoS)
and to Congressman Martin Olav Sabo (because AAP report "Setting the
Record Straight About Academic Journal Publishing" opposes PLoS and
Congressman Sabo), to NIH director Elias Zerhouni (because of my
correspondence relation to his recent meeting with you and a number of STM
publishers), and to Presidents' Science advisor John H. Marburger (because
of my recent Open Letter to the President).

HTML rich version of this letter with instant access to reference
materials (labelled above in blue) is available at the following link:

http://koudinov.info/openaccess/aap1aug04.html#followup1

Sincerely,

Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD
neuroscientist and editor
koudinov.info

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At 07:43 AM 8/2/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Dr Koudinov:
>
>Thank you for your interest in AAP/PSP's web information.  "Setting the
>Record Straight About Academic Journal Publishing" is a public document
>posted on the AAP's Professional/Scholarly Publishing website.  It was
>written by (and represents the views of ) the Association's scholarly and
>professional member publisher organizations.
>
>Barbara J. Meredith
>Vice President, Executive Director, Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division
>Association of American Publishers
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexei Koudinov [mailto:sparcoaforum@neurobiologyoflipids.org]
>Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 8:52 PM
>To: sbrandwein@publishers.org; bmeredith@publishers.org
>Cc: SPARC-OAForum@arl.org
>Subject: Lets Set the Record Straight About Academic Journal Publishing
>
>Sara Brandwein
>Director
>Professional/Scholarly Publishing
>Association of American Publishers, Inc.
>71 Fifth Ave.
>New York, NY 10003-3004
>cc: Barbara J. Meredith, Vice President
>1 August 2004
>Dear Ms. Brandwein,
>I read with interest your report "Setting the Record Straight About Academic Journal Publishing".
>
>May I kindly ask you to publically respond on the following matter:
>  A.  The unfair practices of major scientific journals (including representing conventional subscription-based publishing system journal Nature; Science magazine; Elsevier's Cell Press Neuron and Cell; Elsevier's Brain Research...) illustrate editorial and publishing institution corruption, and their apparent inability to serve public interest.
>  B.  The presented evidence show that questioned journals serve a private interest, and that there is no working mechanism to force these journals or their publishing institutions to amend things and thus observe their own broken self-declared ethical guidelines.
>-- UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee inquiry on Scientififc Publication (Ref 1).
>HTML rich version of this letter with the quote and instant access to Reference 1 is available at the following link:
>
>http://koudinov.info/openaccess/aap1aug04.html
>
>I look forward to hear your public response.
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD
>neuroscientist and editor
>koudinov.info