CMAJ editorial board members vent anger at lack of openness

doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7542.624-a

BMJ 2006;332:624 (18 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7542.624-a

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CMAJ editorial board members vent anger at lack of openness

David Spurgeon

Quebec

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Several members of the editorial board of CMAJ, the journalof the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), were set to resignon Tuesday, as the BMJ went to press, claiming that the associationhas not been open about its firings of the journal's editorand deputy editor, John Hoey and Anne Marie Todkill.

Philip Devereaux, an assistant professor of medicine at McMasterUniversity and a member of the board, announced the developmentafter the editorial board met on Monday evening.

Earlier, relations between the editorial board and the journal'spublishers, the association and CMA Holdings, appeared to bemoving toward an agreement that would have ensured the journal'seditorial independence.

After the board rejected a governance plan offered by the associationon 7 March, saying that the association was merely trying toretain its ability to meddle with editorial content, Larry Ehrlichresigned as chair of the journal oversight committee. . . . [Full text of this article]

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