From Peter Suber:

The AAP/PSP has launched PRISM (Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine).  I'm quoting today's press release in its entirety so that I can respond to it at length:

A new initiative was announced today to bring together like minded scholarly societies, publishers, researchers and other professionals in an effort to safeguard the scientific and medical peer-review process and educate the public about the risks of proposed government interference with the scholarly communication process.

[much egregious lying]

Anyone who wishes to sign on to the PRISM Principles may do so on the site.

Fortunately for us all, Peter has already responded; I won't excerpt his point-by-point rebuttal here, you should go read it all.

This is disgusting. This runs counter to everything that science, academia, scholarship (and scholarly publishing!) stand for.

There are no names on the PRISM site yet -- but I'm going to find as many as I can and publish them here. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and I want to know just who is taking part in this revolting effort to steal from the commons and turn public goods into private profit.

(We can start with the AAP: their members page is essentially one long list of companies and organizations with whom I will assiduously avoid doing business until and unless they dissociate themselves from PRISM, and preferably from the AAP altogether.)

More later. Oh yes indeedy.