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Scientific piracy: warning shots, 72
Perel (2017)
Pirates and predatorsImplant Dent, 26
IMPLANT DENTISTRY /VOLUME 26, NUMBER 5 2017 649 Editorial In Good Company o sooner had we conveyed the story of piracy published as articles in peer-reviewed journals. When in the vast world of professional publishing in reviewers and editors place their energies into the an editorial in the June 2017 issue of this continuum of creditable peer review. When publish- journal, when the other world-renowned publica- ers of scientific journals place their teams of pro- tion, The Economist, surprised us with what would duction editors, compositors, and printers in appear to be a serendipitous follow-up. In the July professional positions to put forth either a print issue 1st issue of The Economist (just 1 month apart) and/or an online issue, where is the fairness, let alone under the heading of Scientific Piracy with the sub- the legality, of usurping and actual stealing the written title, Websites Offering Pirated Papers are Shaking word of scientific publications? Up Science. Meanwhile, the promotion of integrity in As is well stated in The Economist, “Record com- research and its publication is the mission statement panies and film studios have had to learn to live with of COPE. It scrupulously persists in its mission piracy. Increasingly, the same is true of scientific through this, its 20th anniversary. On September papers.” 10–12, 2017, it will host its Eighth International Con- It describes a significant case that was won on gress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication. Its June 21, 2017. It states that a court in New York aim is “to improve the quality and credibility of bio- awarded Elsevier, another scientific publisher, fifteen medical information and to help advance the effi- million dollars in damages for copyright infringement ciency and equitability of scientific information by Sci-Hub and the Library of Genesis (LibGen). As dissemination throughout the world.” There is no bet- The Economist noted, these are 2 websites “that offer ter positive counterbalance to theft than COPE. tens of millions of scientific papers and books for Thank you, The Economist! Thank you COPE! everyone to download.” And so it goes today and will continue to go tomorrow; this ever-increasing worldwide intrusion of entitlement to pirate the work of others. With cyberattacks and hacking, now a part of our ever- confrontational world, on an everyday basis, it is no wonder that scientific piracy has been included in this Morton L. Perel, DDS, MScD morass. When scientific researchers are engrossed in Editor-In-Chief, IMPLANT DENTISTRY their projects and hunker down to seriously convey through the written word their discussions and conclusion in manuscripts which they hope to have REFERENCES 1. Perel ML. Pirates and predators. Implant Dent. ISSN 1056-6163/17/02605-649 Implant Dentistry 2017;26:333. Volume 26 Number 5 Copyright © 2017 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. 2. Scientific piracy: warning shots. The Economist. DOI: 10.1097/ID.0000000000000659 2017;72. Copyright 2017 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited.
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Published: Oct 1, 2017
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