Paleonet: Publishing houses turned crazy

[brcgranier at free.fr]

Dear Paleoneters,

I assume I am not the only one in Paleonet to have had a similar 
experience.

Many editors-in-chief have now special requests following rules erected 
by their publishing houses (below is an excerpt of Elsevier's)

_Repository of studied and illustrated material_
All the figured (and) studied material has to be adequately curated in a 
recognized institution, so as to guarantee the replicability of 
research. State in "Material and methods" the institutional repository 
of the studied material (samples, thin sections and fossils), and in the 
figure captions the curatorial museum numbers of all illustrated 
specimens.

These people have no idea of what a "working collection" is!

I work with thin sections and sometimes I found various microfossils 
that comprise specimens from discrete groups requiring discrete studies.

I am the corresponding member of a national museum and my collections 
(mine and those I inherited ... one of them consists of sets of thin 
sections from some 10,000 samples with fossil algae and foraminifers 
among other microfossils) will end there at a later date.

But today I am not ready to send to this repository material I am still 
working on ... investigating other microfossils. In addition, it would 
not be a good idea to get a museum numbering disrupting the order of the 
collection. For instance, when writing my latest manuscript, I used thin 
sections 2543 (a), 2547 (b) [not a ...], 6925(a), 7276 (d) [not a, b, c 
...], 8292 (a), 8303 (a), 8471 (a) of the X's collection following the 
original labelling of this researcher.

I believe it should be sufficient to write a statement that the 
collection is a "working collection" that will be relocated in a Museum 
at a later date.

In the meantime, I have retracted the "accepted manuscript" (i.e., 
accepted pending that I provide curatorial museum numbers) and 
resubmitted it to another journal, which will imply to pass a new 
peer-review screening =(

?) Bruno Granier
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