Dual Publication Exposed at Emerald.

This article focuses on a paper written by Cornell University librarian Phil Davis, which suggests that the Emerald Publishing has reprinted content. In the hottest story to come out of the 24th annual Charleston Conference, held November 3-6 in Charleston, SC, Cornell University librarian Phil Davis presented a bombshell paper that detailed a pattern of republishing content without attribution at Emerald Publishing, formerly known as MCB University Press. Many of these articles, Davis noted, were published simultaneously in journals within the same or similar subject disciplines. The paper will be published in Library Resources & Technical Services next spring. Davis's work was prompted by Chuck Hamaker, a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who, while searching an Emerald database, learned that one article citing him was published in two different Emerald journals. He also notes, however, that library customers do have a significant complaint, since libraries pay subscription fees in advance for content they generally assume to be original.