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Scientists, publishers and authors rage against PRISM.(Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine)(Brief article)
Byline: Mark Chillingworth
Scientists, publishers and authors rage against PRISM
Angry researchers, scientists and editors have called for action against the Association of American Publishers (AAP), one of the prime movers behind the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine.
Announced last month, Prism is a campaign group that has denounced open access (OA) publishing as "junk science" that is destroying the foundations of peer review.
"Their claim that OA threatens the peer review process is nothing less than the 'big lie' A- the propaganda techniques of Dr Goebbels," said the founder of the International Journal of Information Management, Tom Wilson, in a resignation letter.
Well-known scientist and OA supporter Peter Murray-Rust from Cambridge added to the chorus of derision for Prism. "This initiative is an undisguised coalition to discredit OA publishing and its launch has generated universal dismay and anger in many quarters," he said.
"This campaign is clearly ...
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