RE: "Time to End the Slavery of Traditional Publishing"??

["T Scott Plutchak" <tscott@uab.edu>]

Check the date -- that post is over a year old.  But you're 
right, and there was a fair amount of discussion about the 
comment at the time (mine is here: 
http://tscott.typepad.com/tsp/2007/02/sinking_to_a_ne.html). 
Unofficially and through the grapevine I've heard that the PLoS 
folks took a bit of a beating at the time and that this 
rhetorical viewpoint does not represent the view of the majority 
of people associated with PLoS (or, one hopes, the open access 
movement in general).

Scott
T. Scott Plutchak

Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
tscott@uab.edu

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Subject: "Time to End the Slavery of Traditional Publishing"??

Yamey, Gavin. "Time to End the Slavery of Traditional Publishing".
<http://www.plos.org/cms/node/204>

"Today's traditional publishers...are the slave traders. The research
articles and many of the academics who write them are the slaves."

Seems like a rather extreme and distasteful analogy to me.

Bernie Sloan