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Lesson One: How to Stay on Scientists' Good Side

Aug 27, 2007

In his Tree of Life blog, Jonathan Eisen posts on PRISM, or the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine. It's a coalition launched by the Association of American Publishers with the goal of convincing the scientific community that it's open-access journals, not subscription-based journals, that you should be worrying about. (Open access, it seems, undermines the peer review process.) Eisen writes of the program, "It is the last gasp of a dying breed -- publishers who refuse to do what is the right thing for science and society."

 

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