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More on PRISM: let's not take this lying down.
Jonathan Eisen has got the right idea, listing the entire members' directory of the AAP and calling on academics to consider a boycott if those entities will not at least request dissociation from the PRISM program (as Rockefeller University Press has done) or its discontinuation. You can also read the members' list on the AAP site, and Peter Suber points out that we should pay particular attention to their Professional and Scholarly Publishing division: I suspect that AAP/PSP did not consult its members before launching PRISM. But in any case the members should know that the launch of PRISM tarnishes them, alienates authors, readers, and referees, and, if successful, will only harm science by entrenching rather than removing access barriers to the results of publicly-funded research.Peter is commenting there in response to someone else who has got the right idea, Peter Murray-Rust, who (as a Cambridge faculty member) has written to Cambridge University Press; his letter is an excellent example of what everyone should do who has any connection, professional or personal, with any of the AAP/PSP member companies, so I quote it here in full: Open Letter to Stephen Bourne, Chief Executive Cambridge University PressThis letter hits every necessary nail squarely on the head:
Update: in comments on Jonathan's post, CSHL Press has repudiated PRISM. Good for them, and I hope they will make a formal public statement to the same effect -- for instance, on their website. Comments Thanks Jonathan, I updated the post. Let's hope it's the beginning of an avalanche! Great coverage, Doc Hooker. Thanks for keeping us informed. Post a comment |
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Cold Spring Harbor has now disavowed PRISM. See comments here