From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:57:01 +0000 Recently I was contacted by Library Journal (LJ) in connection with a series of video interviews it is conducting with open access “VIP’s and leaders”. The first interview – with the Director of Harvard University’s Office for Scholarly Communication Peter Suber – has already been published. Would I have some time to do an interview myself, I was asked? The project is for a new section of LJ’s web site sponsored by the open access publisher Dove Press. I liked the idea of doing a video interview but I was instinctively shy of being associated with a project that has a large Dove Press banner on the top right hand corner proclaiming it to be the “exclusive sponsor” of the site, along with a list of featured articles with “Sponsored by Dove Medical Press” in prominent red ink strapped across the top of each one. I felt that taking part would amount to endorsing Dove Press, which for reasons I explain in a blog post I did not want to do. I emailed LJ back to say I was not comfortable with doing an interview for a site sponsored by Dove Press, and asked whether it would consider posting any such video elsewhere on the LJ site. Strangely, I received no reply to this. As I was now intrigued as to how this site had come about, who had suggested the idea, and what its purpose was I also emailed LJ’s Managing Editor. To this too I received no reply. The blog post on this can be accessed here: http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/why-i-wont-be-doing-that-video.html Some comments on my post by Peter Suber can be read here: http://bit.ly/1Qu7LF4 A tweet to Library Journal inviting it to respond to the about comments is available here: https://twitter.com/RickyPo/status/702241648839958534 Richard Poynder