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October 11, 2007
Open Access Allies Strike Back at Publishers
The Chronicle of Education, October 4, 2007
"Anti-Open-Access Effort by Publishing Group Loses Another University Press"
http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=3182
Ellen Faran, director of the MIT Press, has stepped down from the executive council of the Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division. "Ms. Faran told The Chronicle in an e-mail message, 'The Prism Web site continues to give the incorrect impression that it has the unanimous support of the Executive Council.'"
Prism is an anti-open access lobby sponsored by the AAP, and states that "serving the needs of the academic community is best achieved through a wide array of business models, competing in an open marketplace."
Faran's resignation follows that of James D. Jordan of the Columbia University Press. Other critics of Prism include Cambridge University Press and Rockefeller University Press.
---posted by Paula Heaney
Posted by colldev at October 11, 2007 01:22 PM