tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post4766576315423490922..comments2024-03-28T00:36:36.460-07:00Comments on The Tree of Life: PRISM - Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine - Seems like a spoof but it is real, and sadJonathan Eisenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-39694269172181581102009-11-19T22:41:45.952-08:002009-11-19T22:41:45.952-08:00Many institutions limit access to their online inf...Many institutions limit access to their online information. Making this information available will be an asset to all.Paper on Researchhttp://www.researchpaperspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-79722659161309156392007-09-02T08:26:00.000-07:002007-09-02T08:26:00.000-07:00Nice observation, thanks. I don’t visit your blog ...Nice observation, thanks. I don’t visit your blog every day, but when I <BR/>visit your blog I enjoy browsing through your old posts and try to catch up <BR/>what I have missed since my last visit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-26126686141152277912007-08-29T17:15:00.000-07:002007-08-29T17:15:00.000-07:00Anyone know if Nature belongs to PRISM...? seems o...Anyone know if Nature belongs to PRISM...? seems odd that they would be reporting on it if they were a member.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-813632901895306872007-08-29T05:46:00.000-07:002007-08-29T05:46:00.000-07:00Interesting to note that when the PRISM site launc...Interesting to note that when the PRISM site launched it failed to follow its own guidelines about respecting rights of authorship and infringed all homepage images from Getty Images. <BR/>http://www.itgumbo.com/mumbogumbo/2007/08/hypocrisy_scandals_shock_inter.php<BR/>After the blogosphere attacked the images were paid for, however.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-53818222660855021162007-08-28T21:26:00.000-07:002007-08-28T21:26:00.000-07:00For Steve's post go here . It is worth reading.For Steve's post go <A HREF="http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/smount/2007/08/29/prism-distorts-our-view-of-the-open-access-debate" REL="nofollow"> here </A>. It is worth reading.Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-75210728490459238122007-08-28T20:28:00.000-07:002007-08-28T20:28:00.000-07:00I visited the PRISM web site and I have to say tha...I visited the PRISM web site and I have to say that it made me very angry, less because of the open access issue than because they are injecting so much venom into the debate. <BR/><BR/>I ended up blogging on this myself, writing in part: <BR/><BR/>"What should we do? Scientific publishers cannot survive without scientists. Scientists can defend research integrity by thinking twice before entrusting their work to any AAP publisher, or before agreeing to serve as a scientific editor or reviewer for an AAP publisher. Scientists can make sure that their professional organizations do not support the AAP in any way."Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15264977010144529019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-89750146351651080192007-08-26T15:45:00.000-07:002007-08-26T15:45:00.000-07:00I analogize this to the Shotgun Wedding industry a...I analogize this to the Shotgun Wedding industry attacking prostitution, free love, and elopement.<BR/><BR/>-- Prof. Jonathan Vos PostAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-30138606168357314382007-08-26T15:29:00.000-07:002007-08-26T15:29:00.000-07:00I should have remembered Dezenhall's connection as...I should have remembered Dezenhall's connection as I <A HREF="http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2007/01/non-open-access-publishers-getting.html" REL="nofollow"> wrote about this </A> a while ago when Nature ran that articleJonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-7284444410455727182007-08-25T18:07:00.000-07:002007-08-25T18:07:00.000-07:00Good catch, JE - PRISM is something we're all too ...Good catch, JE - PRISM is something we're all too familiar with here in Washington (as JE knows all too well, having grown up here): a lobbying group. Like many lobbying groups, their message is deceptive - they dress up their statement of purpose with a bunch of principles that no one objects to, but when you get to the bottom of the list you find out what they really want: protection for publishers, which is who they are. Suber's comments point out that they are following "PR consultant Eric Dezenhall, who advised the AAP “to equate traditional publishing models with peer review.” <BR/><BR/>There was quite a bit of controversy when it came out that AAP had hired Dezenhall, who is known for his deceptive and often hardball tactics. Even Nature reported on this with the headline "PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access" (see http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/445347a.html).<BR/><BR/>So we're seeing some of the first results of the PR effort by publishers to attack open access - by pretending that they are "protecting" peer review and scientific freedom.<BR/><BR/>Let's make sure we don't let them get away with it.Steven Salzberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16549957293973146438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-84842225493228431472007-08-25T17:13:00.000-07:002007-08-25T17:13:00.000-07:00Isn't it odd how much of the FUD directed against ...Isn't it odd how much of the FUD directed against Open Access is pretty much identical to the complaints of Microsoft and other against Open Source?Jonathan Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04921990886076027719noreply@blogger.com