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Fight the Power ... in What Looks to Be a Very Long Fight

Aug 31, 2007

Jonathan Eisen wants to fight the anti-open-access group, PRISM, created by the Association of American Publishers. He suggests asking AAP members to end PRISM or to drop out of the association. If they do neither, Eisen proposes a boycott of AAP members — a long list including university presses and publishers big and small.

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