- Publishers spending big bucks to try to stop the open-access publishing movement. Yes, these tactics are slimy, but are they not also a sign that open access is a real threat to commercial publishing?
- Speaking of free science reporting, check out Encephalon at Sharp Brains.
- Babel’s Dawn describes ceremonial speech (based on my background in literary studies, I tend to call this “performative speech”).
- Is it always rational to think of humans as rational?
- A calorie is a calorie, whether burned through exercise or saved through dieting.
- Meanwhile, the search for the Holy Grail of dieting continues.
Cognitive Daily
Open access opponents hire PR firm to discredit critics
Posted by Dave Munger on January 30, 2007
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OA is a threat to NONprofit scientific societies. The legislative proposals circulating last year – and likely to circulate this year – do NOT exempt the nonprofits. Even Dr. Zerhouni came to understand that a mandatory OA policy would harm the nonprofits. Unfortunately, SPARC and ALS don’t care. It’s scorched-earth, winner-take-all, and too bad for the nonprofits who are going to take the brunt of all this.
You should be just as concerned about SPARC’s position and tactics as you are about the positions and tactics of the APA.
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Ellen, what are you talking about? Too many acronyms!
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“OA is a threat to NONprofit scientific societies.”
Personally I believe if a nonprofit society can only exist by locking up scientific knowledge, then it doesn’t deserve to exist. That said, there are models of open access publishing that are revenue neutral, and a serious discussion of these models is what is what is warranted, not fearmongering.
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