Libraries Defend Open Access

aisaac writes "Earlier this year an article in Nature (PDF, subscription required) exposed publishers' plans to equate public access to federally funded research with government censorship and the destruction of peer review. In an open letter last month, Rockefeller University Press castigated the publishers' sock-puppet outfit, PRISM, for using distorting rhetoric in a coordinated PR attack on open access. Now the Association of Research Libraries has released an Issue Brief addressing this PR campaign in more detail. The Issue Brief exposes some of the distortions used to persuade key policy makers that recent gains made by open access scientific publishing pose a danger to peer reviewed scientific research, free markets, and possibly the future of western civilization. As an example of what the publishers backing PRISM hate, consider the wonderfully successful grants policy of the National Institutes of Health, which requires papers based on grant-funded research to be published in PubMed Central."

Re:say what?

[Kierthos]

Can't help you. Too busy being amused by the words "sock puppet" in a Slashdot submission.

The article is about... 30 bucks

[Nymz]

and after you pay, then you'll need a proprietary reader to read it.
Slashdot Submissions Showing Subtle Sarcasm +1

ya right

[Adult film producer]

just let the market have it's way and everything will be fine and dandy. Except the only things we'll end up with are cures for erectile dysfunction, manhandled leg syndrome and purple pills that do something truly wonderful but you have to talk to your doctor to find out.

But...how can you NOT trust Prism???

[Poingggg]

..if they have people in LAB-COATS on every page on their site? WHITE labcoats! Everybody knows you can trust someone in a labcoat!

Re:ya right

[Alsee]

purple pills that do something truly wonderful but you have to talk to your doctor to find out

What do you mean you have to ask your doctor? Haven't you seen the commercials?
The purple pills make you go prancing through grassy fields.

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