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