Scientific publishers hire master spin doctor !?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
Date: February 1, 2007 8:50:31 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Scientific publishers hire master spin doctor !?

IP readers might find this  bit from Nature.com interesting ...  
apparently the truth is inappropriate for Wiley and others who want  
to keep their steconomic goldmine in scientific publishing.  Truth in  
advertising: I believe that free access to scientific results is  
absolutely essential to science - scie4ntific publishing is  
incompatible with strong intellectual property rights in words and  
figures necessary to disseminate factual discovery  But I guess we  
have them  scared enough to fight dirty:


   PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access

/.... //Nature/ has learned, a group of big scientific publishers has  
hired [Eric Denzenhall, the pit bull of PR] to take on the free- 
information movement, which campaigns for scientific results to be  
made freely available.  ...

... focus on simple messages, such as "Public access equals  
government censorship".

... publishers should attempt to equate traditional publishing models  
with peer review, and "paint a picture of what the world would look  
like without peer-reviewed articles". ...

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/445347a.html




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