<div dir="ltr">The policy of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS, published by Cambridge University Press), of which I was editor in chief for a quarter century was that authors was that authors were strongly encouraged that if their submitted paper had been submitted to and rejected by a journal, the referee reports (and any rebuttal letter indicating revisions) should accompany the submitted paper. In such cases I could contact the editors of the rejecting journal to confirm that we had received all the reports and that the reports were accurate.<div>
<br></div><div>There's nothing wrong with that practice, but there might be something questionable about OA start-up journals explicitly courting of rejected papers by: Authors usually have a good idea of the journal peer-reviews standards hierarchy in their specialty, and if they are rejected by the top journal, they revise and try the next highest. No need to advertise for the rejects -- and especially not to associate OA with lower standards....</div>
<div><br></div><div>Stevan Harnad </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Beall, Jeffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jeffrey.Beall@ucdenver.edu" target="_blank">Jeffrey.Beall@ucdenver.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas">An open-access publisher has this <a href="http://www.medsci.org/ms/author" target="_blank">policy</a> regarding peer review portability:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas">The Editors of the International Journal of Medical Sciences recognize that many manuscripts rejected by top-tier journals are still outstanding. Our journal is willing to review and re-evaluate manuscripts rejected from journals such as the Nature journals, Cell Press journals, NEJM, Lancet journals, Annals of Internal Medicine, and other high impact journals. We encourage authors to provide a copy of previous reviewer's and editor's comments. These reviews and rebuttals need to be dated and within 6 months of the last submission date. It is our belief that these prior reviews may assist us in expediting your manuscript for re-evaluation, thus facilitating more rapid publication; in some cases, the manuscript may be accepted immediately. Please include the prior reviews and your responses in the covering letter when making your submission.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas">My question is this: Is peer-review portability considered acceptable when the author is the one that transfers the actual peer review data from the rejecting publisher to the new one (as described in the policy above)?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#262626">Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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