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Questioning ethics of publishers... is it okay to publish something that is so disputable? Is there a different law of ethics from newspapers/reporters to books?

Intersection of privacy law and copyright law (esp. fair use and library/archival uses) -- is it ethical to reproduce signed cease-and-desist letters?

In light of demands by the State of Texas for biology textbooks with "balanced"  treatment of evolution. "So here's the missing piece: what about the textbook companies? When this issue is discussed, the publishers are talked about as if they have no agency, no ability to affect the outcome of these events. But they're morally culpable for participating in these farces. If they wanted, they could stand up to the state of Texas. So how can the people who work at a publisher in good conscience agree to write a biology textbook that treats evolution as a wild, unsupported idea?

Academic publisher's code of ethics

An editorial from an Oxford philosophy professor on the problem of publishing pointless papers being unethical in academic publishing - he argues there is a little of unoriginal drivel being recycled from old papers.

Okay, does anyone besides me find it ironic that by making a kerfluffle about it, more people are going to know about this story than just the publication's original readers? Ironic that a post condemning the (lack of) ethics of a publisher are in some ways exacerbating the original problem.

Our own Michael Jensen and his more recent presentation at AAUP is discussed

Washington Post had to cancel series of meetings with lobbyists, etc., because of fears they violated ethics.

The challenges of magazine publishing in a country where government controls publishing.

With the Ethics in Publishing conference coming up, this might be interesting to see more of, high profile social networking sites making an effort to increase their own accessibility.  

I think this article overlaps into the discussion of ethics in publishing. Personally, I am not only appalled but also very disappointed in the choice Lifeway made to stop selling these Bibles. 

Troubling data on how Big Pharma corrupts STM publishing.

Ooops! Elsevier regrets that a Journal that looks like it's peer-reviewed is actually an advertisement for a pharmaceutical company.

Continuing bad behavior from Amazon.  How is this good for publishing?

More on the Elsevier-Merck scandal. Recommended by Barbara Myers Ford

Greedy publishers?