PubMed Central or OA Central — More Strange Behaviors at PMC and NLM Paint a Portrait of Biases and Poor Process « The Scholarly Kitchen

Last week, I wrote a long post about a number of things going on at the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), primarily regarding their PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC) initiatives. There are now some updates to share, some further information about how eLife has been treated, and more evidence that PMC can stumble into competition with technology providers. But first, a recap, with some pertinent updates included. The three main thrusts of what’s going on at NCBI, PubMed, and PMC are: [1] Cronyism – Favoring journals run by friends over journals run by anyone else... [2] Competition – Favoring certain business models over others, and also competing with technology and its position of authority over the PubMed index... [3] Confusion — Exploiting the general confusion between PubMed and MEDLINE to give themselves and their friends advantages in the market...