If you have not seen the wonderful news about the latest anti Open Access initiative called PRISM, well you should surf around the blogosphere a bit. PRISM is a group started by the AAP - the Association of American Publishers that - there is no nice way to put this - is a sad stage in the evolution of publishing. Basically, it is a Macarthy-Era ripoff where Open Access is the new evil that communism once was. And everything wrong with the world is in essence blamed on the Open Access movement. For more detail on PRISM, and what is wrong with it, including the pirates use of copyrighted material, see some of these links:
I think academics and the public need to fight back against this attempt to mislead the public about the issues surrounding Open Access publishing. And one way to fight back is to recommend that the members of AAP drop out or request termination of the PRISM effort. So
here is a list (see below for the full list) with links of the members of AAP. If you are involved or have connections to any of these groups, consider writing or calling them and suggesting they reconsider involvement in AAP. Look, for example at all the University presses. If they do not back out of PRISM we should consider launching a boycott of AAP members.
Full list of AAP from the AAP web site:
Absey & Company, Inc.
Academic Innovations
Academic Learning Company, LLC
Academy 123, Inc.
Academy of Management
Aequus Technologies Corporation
Al-Basheer Publications and Translations
Algora Publishing
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy Ophthamology
American Association of Cancer Research
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
American Chemical Society
American Foundation for the Blind
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Institute of Physics
American Mathematical Society
American Medical Association
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
American Psychological Association
American Scholars Press, Inc.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (The)
American Scientific Publishers
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Ames On-Demand
Apex CoVantage
Apex Learning, Inc.
Appalachian Trail Conference
Ardor Scribendi, Ltd.
ASIS International
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, Inc.)
Association of Research Libraries
Athena Media, Inc.
Atypon Systems, Inc.
AV Book Publishers, Inc.
Avon Books/Harpercollins Publishers
Banta Company
Barnhardt & Ashe Publishing, Inc.
Barricade Books, Inc.
Baseline Development Group
Baydell & Brewer, Inc.
BBC Motion Gallery
Beacon Group, The
Beacon Publishing Services
Berkery, Noyes & Co.
Berkshire Publishing Group, LLC
Black Dome Press Corp.
Blackwell Publishing
Bloomberg Press
Booklight, Inc.
Books International, Inc.
Booktech.com
British American Publishing
Brookings Institution (The)
Brown Publishing Network, Inc.
Cadmus Professional Communications
Cambridge University Press
Capitol Books
CAST
Castle Connolly Medical Ltd
Caxton Printers
CFA Institute
Children's Book Press
City Lights Books
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Colorado Independent Publishers Association
Columbia University, DKV
Consumer Reports
Cornell Maritime Press
Cornell University Press
Council on Foreign Relations Press
Council on Library and Information Resources
Cover Publishing Co.
CQ Press
CrossRef
D2B Group, Inc.
Dana Press, The
Douglas & McIntyre
Eaglemont Press
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Educational Concepts
Element LLC
Elsevier Science Inc.
Emida International Publishers
Ernst & Young, LLP
F.A. Davis Company
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Feminist Press (The)
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, Inc.
Fordham University Press
Fulcrum Publishing
Gallaudet University Press
Genesis Press, Inc. (The)
Gival Press, LLC
Globe Pequot Press, Inc.
Great River Technologies
Grolier Educational
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Grove's Dictionaries/Holtzbrinck
Hachette Book Group USA
Haiduk Press
Hammond, Inc.
Hampton-Brown Company, Inc. (The)
Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc.
Harcourt, Inc./Reed Elsevier
Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
HarperCollins Publishers
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard University Press
Harvest House Publishers
Health Affairs/Project Hope
Hearst Book Group
Heinz Center (The)
Henry Holt & Co.
Hispanex, Inc.
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Howard University Press
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Hyperion
Impact Publishers, Inc.
Info Sys Technologies, Ltd.
Ingram Book Company
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Institute for International Economics
Institute for Scientific Information
Institute of Physics Publishing
Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (The)
iUniverse
The Institute, Inc.
J. Paul Getty Trust Publications
James A. Rock & Company Publishers
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Johns Hopkins University Press (The)
Jordan Publishing House
Journal of Rehabilitation Research Development
Keene Publishing
Key Education Publishing Company LLC
KidBiz 3000
Kirchoff/Wohlberg, Inc.
Knovel.com
LAD Publishing Company
Lattice Press
League of American Poets
Leapfrog Enterprises Inc.
Learning.com
Liberty Fund, Inc.
Library of Congress Publishing Office (The)
Lidenmeyr Book Publishing Papers
Lippincott Williams $ Wilkins Journals
Literary Architects
Little Moose Press
Lousiana State University Press
Love Publishing Company
Luxury Travel Books
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
MacAdam/Cage Publishing Inc.
Mage Publishers, Inc.
Mark Logic Corporation
Market Data Retrieval
MarketingWorks, Inc.
Markus Wiener Publishers
Massachusetts Medical Society/New England Journal of Medicine
Math Teachers Press, Inc.
Mazer Corporation (The)
McGraw-Hill Companies (The)
Medical Group Management Association
Melville House Publishing
Meta Comet Systems
MG Taylor Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Midland Information Resources
Minnesota Historical Society Press
MIT Press (The)
Modern Language Association of America
Momentum Books, LLC
Mondo Publishing
Mooring Field Books, Inc.
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Morgana Press LLC
Moseley Associates, Inc.
Music Together, LLC
National Academy Press
National Computer Systems/Pearson
National Education Standards
National Geographic Society
National Learning Corp.
National Publishing Co.
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
Nature America
New England Journal of Medicine
New Press (The)
New York Botanical Garden (The)
New York University Press
Newmarket Press
Oak Knoll Press
Overlook Press (The)
Oxford University Press
P. H. Glatfelter Company
Pan American Health Organization
Pangaea
Paratex, LLC
Parmenides Publishing
Pearson Education
Pelican Publishing Co., Inc.
Penguin Putnam, Inc.
Pennsylvania State University Press (The)
People's Publishing Group
Peter Li Education Group
Posterity Press, Inc.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP
Posterity Press, Inc.
Princeton University Press
ProQuest Information
Pub Smarts, LLC
Publish America, Inc.
Publisher's Group Incorporated
Publishing House Research
Publishing Illuminations
Publishing Works
Quarasan Group, Inc. (The)
R R Donnelley
R.R. Bowker
Rainbow Books, Inc.
Rand
Random House, Inc.
Ray of Light Publishing Company, Inc.
Reader's Digest Association
ReadHowYouWant.com
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
Red Rock Press
Reed Reference Publishing
Resolve Corporation
Resources for the Future/RFF Press
Rockefeller University Press
Rosetta Solutions, Inc.
Rowland Reading Foundation
Saferock USA, LLC
Sagaponack Books
Sage Publications, Inc.
Scholastic, Inc.
Scholatic Testing Services, Inc.
Scientific American/St. Martin's College Publishing Group
Sea Hawk Publishing
Seven Locks Press
SGI-USA
Sheridan House, Inc.
Simon & Schuster
Six Red Marbles LLC
Soft Skull Press
Springer Publishing Co.
Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
St. Martin's Press
Stanford University Press
Stoeger Publishing
Swan Isle Press
Teachers College Press
Thames & Hudson, Inc.
Thieme New York
Thomson Learning
Tichenor Publishing
Tighe Publishing Services, Inc.
Too Far
Tribune Education
Tupelo Press
Turtle Books
The University of Hawaii Press
UAHC Press
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Illinois Press
University of Tennessee Press
University of Texas Press
University Press of Kentucky
van Tulleken Company (The)
Vantage Press, Inc.
Veronis, Suhler & Associated, Inc.
Victory Productions, Inc.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Viz Media, LLC
Von Hoffmann Corporation
Walford Press
Wesleyan University Press
Western Economic Association
White Rhino Press
Whitston Publishing Company, Inc.
Wiggin and Dana LLP
William Morrow & Co., Inc./HarperCollins Publishers
Willow Creek Press, Inc.
Wooster Book Company
Words & Numbers.com
Workman Publishing
World Bank Group
Worth Publishing, Inc.
Xerox Corporation
Yale University Press
wow, in all the coverage i've been following on prism, have never seen the pisd coalition.
ReplyDeletethat just made my day. absolutely brilliant :)
I was gonna blog that! :-)
ReplyDeleteActually I still will, I want to highlight particular offenders. For instance, University presses should be responsive to faculty input, and so on.
Jonathan, I'd like to make it clear that membership in AAP does not imply or require endorsement of the arguments made by PRISM. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press is currently a member of AAP but our access policies are our own. We were not involved in the formation of PRISM and do not support many of the statements being made on its behalf.
ReplyDeleteGood to know John I. I was about to write to you to ask what you thought about PRISM. I would suggest that as an AAP member you might want to voice displeasure to the board or othters who planned PRISM.
ReplyDeleteI have.
ReplyDeleteJonathan,
ReplyDeleteThanks for getting the list!
Of course the boycott should be partial. The fact that an organization like Cold Spring Harbor Press wants nothing to do with PRISM is exactly the point. As I said in my blog, the AAP goofed. As the comments from John Inglis make clear, the AAP leadership betrayed its members. Scientific publishing is not the place for the kind of public relations used to argue for Intelligent Design or against global warming. What I want now is for the AAP to give their attack dogs the pink slip, the sooner the better. If, on the other hand, this nonsense continues, then, over time, a more aggressive boycott will become justified. Scientific publishers that don't deserve to be boycotted will resign from the AAP and those that remain will be those that deserve to be boycotted.
For me, the issue is less about open access than about the harm done by introducing this sort of irrational argument into the debate.
Steve
Yes, I agree Steve. The issue is no longer about OA and it about the swift boat style of the PRISM site. As I have said many times, though I am a strong supporter of OA publishing, I realize they are valid concerns from reasonable publishers about how to achieve it. But those publishers need to show their reasonable side by removing themselves from AAP if it does not cancel PRISM.
ReplyDeleteIf you pay close attention, you'll see that the main culprits behind the PRISM Coalition is actually the American Chemical Society.
ReplyDeleteThe executives at ACS like Rudy Baum, Madeleine Jacobs, and especially Brian Crawford at the AAP are fighting Open Access because they are trying to protect their bonuses.
Yes, ACS is one of the worst culprits. I think anyone who is a member of ACS should work to change their policies and/or resign.
ReplyDeleteWhat is happening with the boycott of the AAP? I've Googled a bit and have not found much about where the boycott is going.
ReplyDeletePRISM is still very much alive and the AAP is still supporting the Conyers bill.
I think it is time to speak up again.
Well come on guys-- we can't boycott all of them. It needs to be partial..but they do need to be held accountable, good call.
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