From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 07:42:04 +0000

Kudos to Roman Kochan for an exemplary response to an intemperate and
inappropriate letter from the Association of American Publishers.

David


On 9 Aug 2016, at 03:12, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 21:45:22 -0400

Of possible interest:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/08/08/letter-publishers-group-adds-debate-over-sci-hub-and-librarians-who-study-it

Association of American Publishers complains about Cal State librarian
who studies popularity of pirated scientific papers. Cal State defends
its librarian.

August 8, 2016

By
Scott Jaschik

Gabriel J. Gardner is a librarian at California State University at
Long Beach. He studies, among other things, the reasons that some
scholars -- even those with access to scientific journals for which
their colleges and universities have paid for subscriptions -- prefer
shared papers, even when those papers have been pirated in violation
of copyright laws.

Gardner has published papers on the topic and given presentations at
meetings of academic librarians.

Thomas H. Allen, president of the Association of American Publishers,
last month sent a letter to Gardner's boss at Cal State to complain
about a presentation Gardner made on the research -- and that letter
is now being shared online and being criticized by many librarians.
Gardner and Cal State say that the letter distorts his research and
implies that talking about such repositories of pirated papers as
Sci-Hub is the same thing as endorsing them. And they say Allen is
trying to intimidate librarians who are pushing for change in
scholarly publishing.

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