From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:37:19 -0500

I cannot agree with Professor Harnad on this.  The obvious first point
to make is that Kent Anderson does not represent any publishing lobby.
 He runs a not-for-profit medical publisher and is currently head of a
trade organization whose members are largely not-for-profits and
include PLoS.  The second point is that whatever outcme one may want,
the people behind PubMed Central violated their own policies.  I fail
to see how advocating lawlessness is in the society's interest.

Joe Esposito


On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Not worth responding to, but fun for a year-end peak:
>
> PubMed Central Revealed -- Reviewing and Interpreting the Findings of a Surprising 2013
>
> The publishing lobby is clearly becoming increasingly desperate -- and ad-hominem.
>
> (Not a proud swan song for the Gutenberg era in Scholarly Publishing -- more like what one would expect from the tobacco industry or Big Agra…)
>
> Stevan Harnad