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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white 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'>These people are brazen! They even stole a paper published by Moore and Whinston – first published in DSS in 1986.<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 is in their December 2011 issue:<o:p></o:p></span></p><h4 style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>4. A model of decision-making with sequential information-acquisition<o:p></o:p></span></h4><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>James C. Moore, Andrew B. Whinston</span><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'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jan Guynes Clark, Ph.D., CISSP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The University of Texas at San Antonio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Professor and Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>One UTSA Circle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>San Antonio, TX 78249<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>210 458-5244<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org [mailto:aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chitu Okoli<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 26, 2012 11:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AISWorld] Unauthorized Dual Publication<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear Prashant,<br><br>This is quite a bizarre case. I am particularly puzzled by the contradiction presented here:<br><br>* The journal is putting up the stolen DSS articles for sale: <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> (which might indicate a financial motive in brazingly stealing another journal's articles) ...<br>* ... yet claims to be open access: <a href="http://www.generalpolicies.sciencerecord.com">http://www.generalpolicies.sciencerecord.com</a>.<br><br>Elsevier as the copyright holder is definitely the one responsible and in legal position to deal with this matter.<br><br>By the way, I was able to track down some contact info for you:<br><br>1. <a href="http://www.whois.net">http://www.whois.net</a> -> search "sciencerecord.com" gives enom.com as the registrar.<br>2. <a href="http://www.enom.com/whois/">http://www.enom.com/whois/</a> -> search "sciencerecord.com":<br></span>Registrant:<br>sciencerecord<br>science record<br>501 SILVERSIDE RD., STE 82, WILMINGTON,<br>COUNTY OF NEW CASTLE<br>wilmington, DE 19809 US<br>+1.0017135745287<br>Fax 1.1<br><a href="mailto:academic.information.press@gmail.com">academic.information.press@gmail.com</a><br><br>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).<br><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>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:<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/technology/01pirate.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=counterfeit%20nec&st=cse">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/technology/01pirate.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=counterfeit%20nec&st=cse</a><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Chitu Okoli<br>Associate Professor in Management Information Systems<br>John Molson School of Business<br>Concordia University, Montréal<br><br>Phone: +1 (514) 993-6648<br><a href="http://chitu.okoli.org/pro">http://chitu.okoli.org/pro</a><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><h1>[AISWorld] Unauthorized Dual Publication<o:p></o:p></h1><p class=MsoNormal><b>Dijkman, R.M.</b> <br><i>Mon Mar 26 03:58:09 EDT 2012</i> <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><pre>Dear Prashant,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>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></pre><pre><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></pre><pre>with those of volume 51 number 3 of DSS:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><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></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Other issues of this journal also appear to have been copied from DSS.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Probably Elsevier should be made aware of this situation, so they can take appropriate action.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Remco Dijkman<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>From: [#"">] On Behalf Of Prashant Palvia<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Sent: vrijdag 23 maart 2012 20:14<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>To: AISWorld<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Subject: [AISWorld] Unauthorized Dual Publication<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I wanted to bring to the attention of the IS community something that happened last week which has us totally baffled.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>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).<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>