[AISWorld] Unauthorized Dual Publication

[Chitu Okoli]

Dear Prashant,

This is quite a bizarre case. I am particularly puzzled by the contradiction presented here:

* The journal is putting up the stolen DSS articles for sale: http://www.irjbas.sciencerecord.com/archive/2011/3%2811%29/archive.html (which might indicate a financial motive in brazingly stealing another journal's articles) ...
* ... yet claims to be open access: http://www.generalpolicies.sciencerecord.com.

Elsevier as the copyright holder is definitely the one responsible and in legal position to deal with this matter.

By the way, I was able to track down some contact info for you:

1. http://www.whois.net -> search "sciencerecord.com" gives enom.com as the registrar.
2. http://www.enom.com/whois/ -> search "sciencerecord.com":
Registrant:
sciencerecord
science record
501 SILVERSIDE RD., STE 82, WILMINGTON,
COUNTY OF NEW CASTLE
wilmington, DE 19809 US
+1.0017135745287
Fax 1.1
academic.information.press at gmail.com

Going to the enom whois page gives further details (like the web host is hostgator.com) that could help Elsevier in taking the articles down (perhaps by invoking DMCA provisions).

Please share back with the list the final resolution, as I'm sure a lot of us would like to know. You've got to commend The USA Science Record, though, for having good taste in articles they choose to steal. Maybe they're taking first steps towards creating a fake a Decision Support Systems, kind of like the fake NEC that was discovered a some years back:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/technology/01pirate.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=counterfeit%20nec&st=cse

Regards,

Chitu Okoli
Associate Professor in Management Information Systems
John Molson School of Business
Concordia University, Montréal

Phone: +1 (514) 993-6648
http://chitu.okoli.org/pro



  [AISWorld] Unauthorized Dual Publication

*Dijkman, R.M.* <http://www.aisnet.org/ais_lists/public_lists_archive/2012-march/005934.html#>
/Mon Mar 26 03:58:09 EDT 2012/
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Dear Prashant,

This seems to have happened to other papers as well. If you check the other papers in the issue in which you were published, they are also copied from DSS. Compare the contents of volume 3 issue 11 of this journal:
http://www.irjbas.sciencerecord.com/archive/2011/3%2811%29/archive.html
with those of volume 51 number 3 of DSS:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01679236/51/3

Other issues of this journal also appear to have been copied from DSS.

Probably Elsevier should be made aware of this situation, so they can take appropriate action.

Best regards,

Remco Dijkman




From:  [#"">] On Behalf Of Prashant Palvia
Sent: vrijdag 23 maart 2012 20:14
To: AISWorld
Subject: [AISWorld] Unauthorized Dual Publication

Dear Colleagues,

I wanted to bring to the attention of the IS community something that happened last week which has us totally baffled.

On March 10, 2012, I received a message from a faculty member in South East European University which informed us about a double publication of the same article.  He was absolutely right. We checked and found that the article "Contextual Constraints in Media Choice: Beyond Information Richness" that we (Palvia, P., Pinjani, P., Cannoy, S.D., and Jacks, T) published in Decision Support  Systems (Vol. 51, 2011, pp. 657-670) was also published in the International Research Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (Vol 3, Issue 11, Nov 2011).




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