From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 10:29:08 +0000

An interview with Kent Anderson, Editor-in Chief of the Scholarly
Kitchen, CEO/Publisher of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery,
President-Elect of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and “one of
the more vocal sceptics of open access”.

Amongst other things, Anderson explains why he believes that PubMed
Central is biased towards Open Access publishers, why he believes it
is now acting as a primary publisher (despite claiming otherwise), and
why he believes that it is particularly favouring eLife, the new OA
journal funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute (HHMI) and the Max-Planck Society.

From the interview:

“PubMed Central is a government initiative, part of the US National
Library of Medicine [NLM] and the National Institutes of Health. These
agencies are supposed to act fairly and uniformly according to rules
they make obvious to everyone. In the case of eLife, the normal rules
were not followed — eLife was accepted into PubMed Central before it
had demonstrated any capacity to publish independently.”

Further:

“For publishers, this is frustrating because they abide by rules they
feel are uniformly applied, so to see a new and unproven journal cut
the line with the clear assistance of PubMed Central only adds to
their worst fears — that something in the leadership at PubMed Central
is bending the rules to suit a larger agenda, that there isn’t a level
playing field, and that there’s a hidden agenda.”

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/interview-with-scholarly-kitchens-kent.html