No Mr. PLoS, I Expect You to DIE!!!!

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. No Mr. PLoS, I Expect You to DIE!!!!
Controversy surrounds an organization called PRISM, or the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine. Essentially, the organization is arguing that open access is undermining peer review, opening the door to government intervention and selective censorship, and introducing duplications and uncertainty. PRISM, which was established by The Executive Council of the Professional&Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), is a fairly transparent attempt to discredit the open access movement through propaganda and misinformation. Of course, it would help is the critics of PRISM didn't hide behind pseudonyms like 'The Evil Monkey'. More...