It is being reported in The Scientist and the BioEthics Blog that Merck created a phony, “peer-reviewed” journal called the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, which was published by Elsevier.
Beyond the understandable anger from the medical research community, you could also forgive librarians for being a bit pissed, too. It’s bad enough having to deal with constantly increasing prices for real peer-reviewed serials…
[...] the bioethics blog, thanks to Warren Layton for the pointer: The Scientist has reported that, yes, it’s true, Merck cooked up a phony, [...]