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