[CoDeP] the Bentham case: be comprehensive

[Jorge Miguel Streb]

Kit,

Good point. The implication of having no limits on the scope of the journals goes beyond Bentham: if the publishers can list what they please, RePEc can end up covering all the fields of science.

The only thing we can evaluate is Technology Transfer and Entrepreneuship. The board clearly has nothing to do with academics from Business or Economics, it is composed of a bunch of physicians that call what they do "business". The journal seems to be legitimate, given those qualifications. My suggestion is to err on the side of being too comprehensive rather than being too strict, but this is just my opinion. I might not foresee other consequences.

Kind regards,

Jorge

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From: Christopher Baum <kit.baum at bc.edu> 
To: Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org> 
Cc: Committee on Deceptive Publishing <codep-run at lists.openlib.org> 
Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:47:07 +0100 
Subject: Re: [CoDeP] the Bentham case

> Jorge,
> 
> Thanks, but please note that this would be a toothless distinction. Once we grant a RePEc archive code, the publisher is free to create as many series within that archive as they choose. We have no way of accepting some series and not others; the only recourse would be to cancel the archive code. So I would respectfully request the committee to consider the publisher in a yes/no fashion: should this publisher be granted a RePEc archive code, to do with as they wish?
> 
> Thanks
> Kit Baum
> 
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org> wrote:
>   Jorge Miguel Streb writes
> 
> > As Marco points out, this is the only journal related to business in
> > the whole Bentham collection.
> 
>   Well there is two brands, "Bentham" and "Bentham Open". I had
>   started with Bentham and found this to be the only. I checked the
>   journal list of "Bentham Open" right now. They have nothing that
>   one would call economics.
> 
>   I suspect that following our investigation, we can recommend Kit to
>   tell them they can open an archive for "Technology Transfer and
>   Entrepreneurship" (TTE) papers. I doubt RePEc should take other
>   journals because of the subject, but that is Kit's decision at
>   this time. Let this recommondation goes into force unless we read
>   some objects by a committee member within 24 hours, say by
>   Wednesday Dec 14 02:00 UTC 2016.
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>                                               skype:thomaskrichel
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Kit Baum
> Professor of Economics and Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA, USA
> DIW Research Fellow, Department of Macroeconomics, DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany
> baum at bc.edu  |  http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
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