[InetBib] [Fwd: PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access: excerpts from article in Nature Magazine]

[Ulrich Herb <u.herb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hallo,


eine recht interessante Email von Les Carr (mit Verweis auf nature) über 
verschärfte Anti-Open-Access Lobby-Arbeit in den USA.

Viele Grüße

Ulrich Herb


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Betreff: 	PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access: excerpts from article in 
Nature Magazine
Datum:  Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:14:30 +0000
Von:    Leslie Carr <lac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Antwort an: 	American Scientist Open Access Forum 
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An:     AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



Jennifer McLennan (ARL) points out the following article to appear in 
Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v445/n7126/full/445347a.html

Extracts below
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PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access

Jim Giles

Journal publishers lock horns with free-information movement.

The author of Nail 'Em! Confronting High-Profile Attacks on Celebrities 
and Businesses is not the kind of figure normally associated with the 
relatively sedate world of scientific publishing. Besides writing the 
odd novel, Eric Dezenhall has made a name for himself helping companies 
and celebrities protect their reputations, working for example with 
Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron chief now serving a 24-year jail term 
for fraud.

...

Now, Nature has learned, a group of big scientific publishers has hired 
the pit bull to take on the free-information movement, which campaigns 
for scientific results to be made freely available. Some traditional 
journals, which depend on subscription charges, say that open-access 
journals and public databases of scientific papers such as the National 
Institutes of Health's (NIH's) PubMed Central, threaten their livelihoods.

From e-mails passed to Nature, it seems Dezenhall spoke to employees 
from Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society at a meeting 
arranged last July by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). A 
follow-up message in which Dezenhall suggests a strategy for the 
publishers provides some insight into the approach they are considering 
taking.

The consultant advised them to focus on simple messages, such as "Public 
access equals government censorship". He hinted that the publishers 
should attempt to equate traditional publishing models with peer review, 
and "paint a picture of what the world would look like without 
peer-reviewed articles".

...

Dezenhall noted that if the other side is on the defensive, it doesn't 
matter if they can discredit your statements, she added: "Media 
massaging is not the same as intellectual debate.


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Les Carr


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