Ethics and Publishing

Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School professor and historian, explains how socially responsible business dates back to modern capitalism's founding era.

More digital demand, less funding

Ethics surrounding marketing and privacy

Contributed by Becky Robinson.

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.

Elsevier journal pricing backlash leads to a boycott.

Oxford University Press editorial policy comes under fire.  The president of OUP will be a keynote speaker at this year's Ethics and Publishing Conference.

LBF gives a platform to the censors of Chinese Communist Party and stifles the voices of Chinese ex-pats and critics.

It's difficult to defend snooping on users, especially when your motto is don't be evil.

AAP works to shut down OA.

I'm not entirely convinced by CrossMark, but Retraction Watch is right that peer review doesn't (and shouldn't) stop at publication.

Want another reason to dislike Congress?

Amazon exploits local booksellers. If you like bookstores you should be concerned.

How much evidence of borrowing is required before charges of plagiarism are reasonable?  

Why SOPA is dangerous legislation.