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Libraries Defend Open Access

Posted by kdawson on from the we-already-paid-for-it-once dept.

aisaac writes "Earlier this year an article in Nature (PDF, subscription required) exposed publishers' plans to equate public access to federally funded research with government censorship and the destruction of peer review. In an open letter last month, Rockefeller University Press castigated the publishers' sock-puppet outfit, PRISM, for using distorting rhetoric in a coordinated PR attack on open access. Now the Association of Research Libraries has released an Issue Brief addressing this PR campaign in more detail. The Issue Brief exposes some of the distortions used to persuade key policy makers that recent gains made by open access scientific publishing pose a danger to peer reviewed scientific research, free markets, and possibly the future of western civilization. As an example of what the publishers backing PRISM hate, consider the wonderfully successful grants policy of the National Institutes of Health, which requires papers based on grant-funded research to be published in PubMed Central."

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  1. it has to be said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Day 1

    Mommy, I am only 8 inches long, but I have all my organs. I love the sound of your voice. Every time I hear it, I wave my arms and legs. The sound of your heart beat is my favorite lullaby.

    Day 2

    Mommy, today I learned how to suck my thumb. If you could see me, you could definitely tell that I am a baby. I'm not big enough to survive outside my home though. It is so nice and warm in here.

    Day 3

    You know what Mommy, I'm a girl!! I hope that makes you happy. I always want you to be happy. I don't like it when you cry. You sound so sad. It makes me sad too, and I cry with you even though you can't hear me.

    Day 4

    Mommy, my hair is starting to grow. It is very short and fine, but I will have a lot of it. I spend a lot of my time exercising. I can turn my head and curl my fingers and toes, and stretch my arms and legs. I am becoming quite good at it too.

    Day 5

    You went to the doctor today. Mommy, he lied to you. He said that I'm not a baby. I am a baby Mommy, your baby. I think and feel. Mommy, what's abortion?

    Day 6

    I can hear that doctor again. I don't like him. He seems cold and heartless. Something is intruding my home. The doctor called it a needle. Mommy what is it? It burns! Please make him stop! I can't get away from it! Mommy!! HELP me!! No . . .

    Day 7

    Mommy, I am okay. I am in Jesus's arms. he is holding me. He told me about abortion. Why didn't you want me Mommy?

    One more heart that was stopped. Two more eyes that will never see. Two more hands that will never touch. Two more legs that will never run. One more mouth that will never speak.

    REPOST THIS IF U HATE ABORTION

    1. Re:it has to be said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If it wasn't for the impracticality of such an exercise, I'd urge pro-choice women to abort one baby for every time the parent is copy-pasted...

    2. Re:it has to be said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Babaies aren't made in 7 days retard.

    3. Re:it has to be said by megaditto · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If it weren't inhumane, I would suggest that pro-choice parents abort every single baby they had in the hopes of them scoring the ultimate Darwin award...

      On a separate note, I think murder should be legal as well: because IT'S MY BODY (and you are pissing it off).

      --
      Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
    4. Re:it has to be said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      On a separate note, I think murder should be legal as well: because IT'S MY BODY

      On a separate note, I think suicide should be legal as well, since it's their body, and it's not like the conservartives really care what happens to it once it can't put in a day's work anymore.