Peter Suber says it all:
From Peter Suber's Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_07_01_fosblogarchive.html#7012952153392015231
Publishers oppose strengthening the NIH policy, again
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has released a June 25
letter from a group of society publishers to members of Congress.
http://www.pspcentral.org/publications/LHHS_appropriations_bills.pdf
The letter opposes appropriations bills now before Congress that
would strengthen the NIH public access policy by converting it from
a request to a requirement.
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
The publisher arguments are old, tired, and weak, and Congress now
sees through them:
-- an OA mandate at NIH will kill peer review...
-- it will violate copyright...
-- there's no need to compromise since publishers provide all the
added value here and taxpayers none of it...
-- European countries are not really adopting similar policies...
-- researchers don't want it...
-- the compliance rate with the current voluntary policy is not
as dismal as it looks...
-- and bad as the proposal is, it duplicates what publishers are
already doing...
I won't write a detailed rebuttal to this letter. But for detailed
rebuttals to very similar past letters, see my March 30, 2007,
response to a March 26 AAP letter opposed to strengthening the NIH
policy,
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_03_25_fosblogarchive.html#117526221745302635
or my May 10, 2006, response to a May 9 AAP letter opposed to FRPAA .
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114726726169346460
Posted by Peter Suber at 7/02/2007 04:48:00 PM.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_07_01_fosblogarchive.html#7012952153392015231
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For more prior rebuttals (2004 - 2007) of the publishing lobby's same
old, tired, and weak arguments against the UK, RCUK, NIH, FRPAA and EC
OA Self-Archiving Mandate Proposals (and for the simple ways in which
each mandate can be formulated in such a way as to completely remove
the publishing lobby from the decision loop) see:
A Simple Way to Optimize the NIH Public Access Policy
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4091.html
Guide for the Perplexed: Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4131.html
Critique of PSP/AAP Critique of NIH Proposal
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4146.html
Critique of STM Critique of NIH Proposal
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4174.html
Critique of Stanford/HighWire Press Critique of NIH Proposal
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4178.html
Critique of PSP/AAP Critique of NIH Proposal
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4146.html
Critique of APS Critique of NIH Proposal
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4197.html
Please Don't Copy-Cat Clone NIH-12 Non-OA Policy!
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4307.html
Critique of Graham Taylor's critique of the RCUK policy proposal
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4631.html
Open Letter to Research Councils UK: Rebuttal of ALPSP Critique
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4674.html
Journal Publishing and Author Self-Archiving:
Peaceful Co-Existence and Fruitful Collaboration
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/20-guid.html
Rebuttal of STM Response to RCUK Self-Archiving Policy Proposal
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4715.html
Critique of Research Fortnight article on RCUK policy proposal
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4760.html
Not a Proud Day in the Annals of the Royal Society
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4931.html
Critique of AAP/PSP Critique of FRPAA Proposal
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5397.html
How to Counter All Opposition to the FRPAA Self-Archiving Mandate
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5398.html
Feedback on the Brussels EC Meeting on Open Access
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/6160.html
The Immediate-Deposit/Optional Access (ID/OA) Mandate:
Rationale and Model
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates:
What? Where? When? Why? How?
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html
Stevan Harnad
Received on Tue Jul 03 2007 - 01:55:21 BST