Ellen Faran, Director of the MIT Press, has given me permission to share the following statement:
"The AAP's press release on the Research Works Act does not reflect the position of the MIT Press; nor, I imagine, the position of many other scholarly presses whose mission is centrally focused on broad dissemination. We will not, however, withdraw from the AAP on this issue as we value the Association?s work overall and the opportunity to participate as a member of the larger and diverse publishing community." *Comment*: I believe MIT Press is the first AAP-member press to disavow the AAP position on the Research Works Act. Kudos and profound thanks to Ellen Faran and MIT Press for their leadership on this issue. Peter Suber Director, Harvard Open Access Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Senior Researcher, SPARC gplus.to/petersuber -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20120111/aef40370/attachment-0001.html
