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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Prashant,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.irjbas.sciencerecord.com/archive/2011/3%2811%29/archive.html">http://www.irjbas.sciencerecord.com/archive/2011/3%2811%29/archive.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>with those of volume 51 number 3 of DSS:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01679236/51/3">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01679236/51/3</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Other issues of this journal also appear to have been copied from DSS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Probably Elsevier should be made aware of this situation, so they can take appropriate action.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>Remco Dijkman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=180 height=38 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01CD0B36.9325A5F0" alt="Description: cid:image001.gif@01CAD18C.A47BE4D0"><br><br></span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>dr.ir. 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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) <span class=il>published</span> in Decision Support Systems (Vol. 51, 2011, pp. 657–670) was also <span class=il>published</span> in the International Research Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (Vol 3, Issue 11, Nov 2011). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'>We were appalled by this <span class=il>dual</span> <span class=il>publication</span> as we had submitted our article only to DSS and never to the International Research Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences or any other journal for that matter. So we contacted the editors of DSS. The Managing Editor of DSS told us that she had no knowledge of it and referred us to their Publisher, Elsevier. Elsevier came back and told us the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'>“As for the other journal, International Research Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, this is not an Elsevier journal so we can rule out the possibility of your paper being submitted to that journal by someone from Elsevier. We would suggest that you contact the Editorial Office of the said journal and clarify with them this matter. They can confirm who submitted your paper to their journal.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'>At this point, I went to the publisher (The USA Science Record) web site of the International Research Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences <a href="http://www.journals.sciencerecord.com/" target="_blank">http://www.journals.sciencerecord.com/</a> and found that they have several journals including this one in question. For this journal, they have many names on the editorial board but no name for an editor-in-chief. On March 16, I wrote to their general email address asking them about this dual publication and the name of the editor-in-chief. I have not received any response from them. In order to investigate further, I also wrote to three names on the editorial board but have not received any response.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'>At this point, we have reached the end of the rope and don’t know what to do next.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'>I write to the AIWorld list for several reasons:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none'>1.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>My co-authors and I have no knowledge of the second publication and completely dissociate ourselves from this second publication.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none'>2.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Does anyone have a logical explanation for this dual publication?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none'>3.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Has it happened to others?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none'>4.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>If there is no logical explanation, then obviously it violates ethics and perhaps even some laws. What can be done to stop this practice? Should AIS get involved?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none'>5.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>What should we do now?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Prashant Palvia, Ph.D., Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor<br>The University of North Carolina at Greensboro <br>Bryan School of Business and Economics<br>424 Bryan Building, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>