Association of American Publishers (AAP)

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Academic Publishers Have Become The Enemies Of Science

Mike Taylor | The Guardian | January 16, 2012

The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls Read More »

Big Push For Open Access

Ry Rivard | Inside Higher Ed | February 25, 2013

New taxpayer-funded research must be made available to the public free of charge within a year of its publication, the Obama administration said Friday. Read More »

Federal Spending Bill Expands Research Funding With Open Access Mandate, Restores IMLS Funding

Ian Chant | Library Journal | January 23, 2014

The omnibus spending bill signed into law by President Obama on January 17 has plenty of wrinkles and details, but one of them is a change that expands the number of federal agencies operating under a mandate to make research they fund available to the public after one year. Read More »

How To Provide Open Access?

Ry Rivard | Inside Higher Ed | June 5, 2013

Scholarly publishers want to keep hosting taxpayer-funded research that will soon be made public free of charge. The publishers unveiled a plan to do so Tuesday by arguing they could save the federal government money. The plan also allows publishers to keep at least a piece of a pie they now own. Read More »

Publishers Do Not Provide Peer-Review. We Do.

Mike Taylor | svpow.com | January 23, 2012

Publishers do not provide peer-review.  We do.  The same body of researchers that writes the papers for publishers also performs peer-review for publishers.  And we charge exactly the same amount: nothing.  Peer review is just one more gift that we give to the publishers.  It’s a gift that I don’t begrudge when the world can benefit from it, through open-access publishing.

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Publishers Offer CHORUS As Solution To Federal Open Access Requirements

Meredith Schwartz | Library Journal | June 6, 2013

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has put forward its bid for a coalition of publishers to handle many of the requirements outlined in the recent Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo requiring open access to federally funded research, in the form of the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS). Read More »

Publishers Respond In CHORUS To White House Open Access Mandate

Beth S. | Pocket Full of Liberty | June 7, 2013

In February, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) informed federal agencies spending more than $100 million on research to develop strategies to make published results of federal funded research publicly available. OSTP stipulated that results must be freely available within one year of publication. Read More »

Scientific Publishers Offer Solution To White House's Public Access Mandate

Jocelyn Kaiser | Science Insider | June 4, 2013

A group of scientific publishers today announced a plan for allowing the public to read taxpayer-funded research papers for free by linking to journals' own websites... Read More »