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. [SNIP]