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As more journals shift from being run by university presses and scholarly societies to corporate entities, the goal is better management, better sales (since packages of journals are frequently sold together) and economies of scale. The fear of some involved in journal publishing is that corporate interests will limit the role of scholars in making key decisions.

Author-pays model meets bottom-line publisher. The vanity press of scholarly publication?

A math journal published by Elsevier published over 300 research articles written by the Editor-in-Chief. The articles appear to have bypassed the peer-review process entirely.

Elsevier, in cooperation with some pharmaceutical companies, published over 5 journal-like entitities from 2000-2008. These "journals" were given names that sounded basically reputable, but were essentially reprints of works that appeared in other Elsevier journals and featured works that touted the benefits of drugs produced by these drug companies.

So many posts from the Scholarly Kitchen could be linked here because they often write on relevant topics, but this one caught my eye. The discussion about the open access book, which will not be made open access until a year out, is particularly interesting.

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