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In [my last
post](cameronneylon.net/blog/the-stupidity-of-sopa-in-scholarly-publishing)
on scholarly publishers that support the US Congress SOPA bill I ended
up making a series of edits. It was pointed out to me that the
[Macmillan](http://us.macmillan.com/) listed as a supporter is not the
[Macmillan](http://international.macmillan.com/) that is the parent
group of [Nature Publishing
Group](http://www.nature.com/npg "Nature Publishing Group"){.zem_slink
rel="homepage"} but a separate U.S. subsidiary of the same ultimate
holding company, [Holtzbrinck](http://www.holtzbrinck.com/). As I dug
further it became clear that while only a small number of scholarly
publishers were explicitly and publicly supporting SOPA, [many of them
are members](http://publishers.org/members/psp/) of the [Association of
American Publishers](http://publishers.org/), which is listed publicly
as a supporter.

This is a little different to directly supporting the act. The AAP is a
membership organisation that represents its members (including Nature
Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Wiley Blackwell and a number
of other familiar names, see the full list at the bottom) to -- amongst
others -- the U.S. government. Not all of its positions would
necessarily be held by all its members. However, neither have any of
those members come out and publicly stated that they disagree with the
AAP position. In another domain [Kaspersky software quit the Business
Software
Alliance](http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/enterprise/371590/kaspersky-quits-software-alliance-over-sopa-spat)
over the BSA's support of SOPA, even after the [BSA withdrew its
support](http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2126879/business-software-alliance-withdraws-support-sopa-anti-piracy-plans).

I was willing to give AAP members some benefit of the doubt, hoping that
some of them might come out publicly against SOPA. But if that was the
hope then the AAP have just stepped over the line. In a
[spectacularlyÂ disingenuousÂ press
release](http://www.publishers.org/press/56/) the AAP claims significant
credit for a new act just submitted to the U.S. Congress. This, in a
repeat of some previous efforts, would block any efforts on the part of
U.S. federal agencies to enact open access policies, even to the extent
of blocking them from continuing to run the spectacularly successful
PubMedCentral. That this comes days before the deadline for a request
for information on the development of appropriate and balanced policies
that would support access to the published results of U.S.
taxpayer-funded research is a calculated political act, an abrogation of
any principled stance, and clear signal of a lack of any interest in a
productive discussion on how to move scholarly communications forward
into a networked future.

I was willing to give AAP members some space. Not any more. The time has
come to decide whether you want to be part of the future of research
communication or whether you want to legislate to try and stop that
future happening. You can be part of that future or you can be washed
into the past. You can look forward or you can be part of a political
movement working to rip off the taxpayers and charitable donors of the
world. Remember that the profits alone of Elsevier and Springer (though
I should be cutting Springer a little slack as they're not on the AAP
list -- the one on the list is a different Springer) [could fund the
publication of every paper in the world in PLoS
ONE](http://svpow.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/economics-of-open-source-publishing/).
Remember that [the cost of putting a SAGE article on reserve for a
decent sized
class](http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/open-access-to-save-costs-for-teaching.html)Â or
of putting [a Taylor and Francis monograph on reserve for a more modest
sized
one](http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/selling-out-feminism-100-photocopies.html)
*at one universityÂ *is more than it would cost to publish them in most
[BioMedCentral](http://www.biomedcentral.com "BioMed Central"){.zem_slink
rel="homepage"} journals and make them available to all.

Ultimately this legislation is irrelevant -- the artificial level of
current costs of publication and the myriad of additional charges that
publishers make for this, that, and the other (Colour charges?
Seriously?) will ultimately be destroyed. The current inefficiencies and
inflated markups cannot be sustained. The best legislation can do is
protect them for a little longer, at the cost of damaging the
competitiveness of the U.S. as a major player in global research. With
PLoS ONE rapidly becoming a significant proportion of the world's
literature on its own and Nature and Science soon to be facing serious
competition at the top end from an OA journal backed by three of the
most prestigious funders in the world, we are moving rapidly towards a
world where publishing in a subscription journal will be foolhardy at
best and suicidal for researchers in many fields. This act is ultimately
a pathetic rearguard action and a sign of abject failure.

But for me it is also a sign that the rhetoric of being supportive of a
gradual managed change to our existing systems, a plausible argument for
such organisations to make, is dead for those signed up to the
AAP.Â Publishers have a choice -- lobby and legislate to preserve the
inefficient, costly, and largely ineffective status quo -- or play a
positive part in developing the future.

I don't expect much; to be honest I expect deafening silence as most
publishers continue to hope that most researchers will be too buried in
their work to notice what is going on around them. But I will continue
to hope that some members of that list, the organisations that really
believe that their core mission is to support the most effective
research communication -- not that those are just a bunch of pretty
words that get pulled out from time to time -- will disavow the AAP
position and commit to a positive and open discussion about how we can
take the best from the current system and make it work with the best we
can with the technology available. A positive discussion about managed
change that enables us to get where we want to go and helps to make sure
that we reap the benefits when we get there.

This bill is self-defeating as legislation but as a political act it may
be effective in the short term. It could hold back the tide for a while.
But publishers that support it will ultimately get wiped out as the
world moves onÂ and they spend so time pushing back the tide that they
miss the opportunity to catch up. Publishers who move against the bill
have a role to play in the future and are the ones with enough insight
to see the way the world is moving. And those publishers who sit on the
sidelines? They don't have the institutional capability to take the
strategic decisions required to survive. Choose.

*Update: An [interesting parallel
post](http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2012/01/scholarly_societies_its_time_t.php)
from John Dupuis and [a trenchant
expose](http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=807)Â (we expect nothing
less) from Michael Eisen. Jon Eisen calls for people at the institutions
and organisations with links to AAP to [get on the phone and ask for
them to resign from
AAP](http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2012/01/calling-on-publishers-to-resign-from.html).
Lots of links appearing at [this Google+
post](https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/QYAH1jSJG6L)
from Peter Suber.*

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- [Academy of Management at Pace University](http://www.aomonline.org/)
- [Access Innovations](http://www.accessinn.com/)
- [American Academy of Pediatrics](http://www.aap.org/)
- [American Anthropological Association](http://www.aaanet.org/)
- [American Association for Cancer Research](http://www.aacr.org/)
- [American Association for the Advancement of
  Science](http://www.aaas.org/)
- [American Chemical Society](http://pubs.acs.org/)
- [American Dental Association Publishing](http://www.ada.org/)
- [American Foundation for the Blind](http://www.afb.org/)
- [American Geophysical Union](http://www.agu.org/)
- [American Institute of Aeronautics and
  Astronautics](http://www.aiaa.org/)
- [American Institute of Physics](http://www.aip.org/)
- [American Mathematical Society](http://www.ams.org/home/page)
- [American Medical Association](http://www.ama-assn.org/)
- [American Nurses Association](http://www.nursingworld.org/)
- [American Physiological Society](http://www.the-aps.org/)
- [American Psychiatric Publishing,
  Inc](http://appi.org/Pages/default.aspx)
- [American Psychological Association](http://www.apa.org/)
  - [Magination Press](http://www.apa.org/pubs/magination)
- [American Scholars Press](http://www.americanscholarspress.com/)
- [American School for Classical Studies at
  Athens](http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/publications)
- [American Society of Clinical Oncology](http://www.asco.org/)
- [ASIS International](http://www.asisonline.org/)
- [Association for Computing Machinery](http://www.acm.org/)
  - [Digital Library](http://www.acm.org/dl)



- [Barnhardt & Ashe Publishing](http://www.barnhardtashepublishing.com/)
- [Bowker, LLC](http://www.bowker.com/)
  - [Cambridge Information Group](http://www.bowker.com/)
- [Brookings Institution Press](http://www.brookings.edu/press.aspx)



- [Cambridge University
  Press](http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/home/item2272976/?site_locale=en_US)
- [Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.](http://www.castleconnolly.com/)
- [Cato Institute](http://www.cato.org/)
- [Cengage Learning](http://www.cengage.com/us/index.html)
  - [Hampton-Brown Publishing Company](http://ngsp.com/)
  - [National Geographic School Publishing](http://www.ngsp.com/)
- [Columbia University Press](http://cup.columbia.edu/)
- [Council on Foreign Relations Press](http://www.cfr.org/)
- [Council on Library and Information Resources](http://www.clir.org/)



- [Demos Medical Publishing, LLC](http://www.demosmedpub.com/)



- [Elsevier](http://www.elsevier.com/)
  - [Academic Press](http://www.publishers.org/)



- [F.A. Davis Company](http://www.fadavis.com/)
  - [Davis Plus](http://www.fadavis.com/)
- [Federation of American Societies for Experimental
  Biology](http://www.faseb.org/)
- [Feminist Press, Inc.](http://www.feministpress.org/)
- [Fordham University Press](http://www.fordhampress.com/)
- [Fox P2 Media, LLC](http://www.themedicalroundtable.com/)



- [Gallaudet University Press](http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/)
- [Georgetown University Press](http://www.press.georgetown.edu/)
- [Getty Publications](http://www.getty.edu/museum/publications/)
  - [Getty Conservation
    Institute](http://www.getty.edu/museum/publications)
  - [Getty Research Institute](http://www.getty.edu/museum/publications)
  - [J. Paul Getty Museum](http://www.getty.edu/museum/publications)
- [Gival Press, LLC](http://www.givalpress.com/)



- [Haiduk Press](http://www.haidukpress.com/)
- [Harvard Business Review Group](http://hbsp.harvard.edu/)
- [Harvard University Press](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/)
- [Health Affairs/Project Hope](http://www.healthaffairs.org/)
- [HighWire Press- Stanford University](http://highwire.stanford.edu/)
- [Human Factors and Ergonomics
  Society](http://www.hfes.org/web/Default.aspx)



- [Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers,
  Inc.](http://www.ieee.org/index.html)
- [International Association for the Study of
  Pain](http://www.iasp-pain.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home)
- [International Monetary
  Fund](http://www.imfbookstore.org/Default.asp?)
- [Ithaka](http://www.ithaka.org/)
  - [JSTOR](http://www.ithaka.org/)
  - [Portico](http://www.ithaka.org/)



- [John Wiley & Sons, Inc.](http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/)
  - [Wiley Blackwell Publishing](http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/)
- [Johns Hopkins University Press](http://www.press.jhu.edu/)
- [Journal of Rehabilitation Research &
  Development](http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/jourindx.html)



- [Learning Ally](http://www.learningally.org/)
- [Liberty Fund, Inc](http://www.libertyfund.org/)
- [Library of Congress](http://www.loc.gov/loc/pub/)
- [Love Publishing Company](http://www.lovepublishing.com/)
- [Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc](https://www.rienner.com/)



- [Macmillan](http://us.macmillan.com/)
  - [Farrar, Strauss & Giroux](http://us.macmillan.com/)
  - [First Second](http://us.macmillan.com/)
  - [Hayden-McNeil](http://us.macmillan.com/)
  - [Henry Holt & Company](http://us.macmillan.com/)
  - [Macmillan Audio](http://us.macmillan.com/)
  - [Macmillan Higher Education](http://www.bfwpub.com/)
  - [Nature Publishing Group](http://us.macmillan.com/)
  - [Palgrave Macmillan](http://us.macmillan.com/)
  - [Picador](http://us.macmillan.com/Picador)
  - [Quick and Dirty Tips](http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/)
  - [St. Martin's Press](http://us.macmillan.com/)
  - [Tor/Forge](http://us.macmillan.com/)
- [Macmillan Magazines and Journals](http://www.publishers.org/)
- [Massachusetts Medical
  Society](http://www.massmed.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home6)
- [McGraw-Hill Companies](http://www.mhprofessional.com/)
  - [Entrepreneur Press](http://www.entrepreneurpress.com/)
- [MIT Press](http://mitpress.mit.edu/main/home/default.asp)
- [Modern Language Association of America](http://www.mla.org/)
- [Morgan & Claypool Publishers](http://www.morganclaypool.com/)



- [National Academies Press](http://www.nap.edu/)
- [National Information Standards
  Organization](http://www.niso.org/home/)
- [National Publishing
  Company](http://www.nationalpublishingcompany.com/)
- [National Science Teachers Association](http://www.nsta.org/)
- [New England Journal of Medicine](http://www.nejm.org/)
- [New York Botanical Gardens Press](http://www.nybg.org/)
- [NYU Press](http://www.nyupress.org/)



- [Oncology Nursing Society](http://www.ons.org/Publications)
- [Optical Society of America](http://www.osa.org/)
- [Oxford University Press](http://www.oup.com/us/?view=usa)



- [Parmenides
  Publishing](http://www.parmenides.com/publications/publications.html)
- [Pearson Education](http://www.pearsoned.com/)
  - [Addison Wesley](http://www.publishers.org/)
- [Pennsylvania State University Press](http://www.psupress.org/)
- [Peterson Institute for International
  Economics](http://petersoninstitute.org/)
- [Princeton University Press](http://press.princeton.edu/)



- [RAND Corporation](http://www.rand.org/)
- [Red Rock Press](http://www.redrockpress.com/)
  - [A Red Pebble Book](http://www.redrockpress.com/)
- [Reed Elsevier](http://www.reed-elsevier.com/)
  - [LexisNexis](http://www.reed-elsevier.com/)
  - [Matthew Bender](http://www.reed-elsevier.com/)
  - [Reed Construction Data](http://www.reed-elsevier.com/)
- [Rockefeller University Press](http://www.rupress.org/)



- [SAGE Publications](http://www.sagepub.com/home.nav)
  - [CQ Press](http://www.cqpress.com/)
- [Silverchair Science & Communications](http://www.silverchair.com/)
- [Springer Publishing Company](http://www.springerpub.com/)
- [St. Vladimir's Seminary Press](http://www.svspress.com/)
- [Stanford University Press](http://www.sup.org/)



- [Teachers College Press](http://www.teacherscollegepress.com/)
- [Thieme Medical Publisher](http://www.thieme.com/)



- [Unbound Medicine, Inc](http://www.unboundmedicine.com/)
- [United Nations Publications](https://unp.un.org/)
- [University of California Press](http://www.ucpress.edu/)
- [University of Chicago Press](http://www.press.uchicago.edu/)
- [University of Hawaii Press](http://www.hawaii.edu/uhpress/)
- [University of Illinois Press](http://www.press.uillinois.edu/)
- [University of North Carolina Press](http://uncpress.unc.edu/)
- [University of Tennessee Press](http://utpress.org/)
- [University of Texas Press](http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/)



- [Virginia Museum of Fine
  Arts](http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/Default.aspx)



- [Wesleyan University Press](http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/)
- [White House Historical
  Association](http://www.whitehousehistory.org/)
- [Wildlife Society, The](http://www.wildlife.org/)
- [Wolters Kluwer](http://www.wolterskluwer.com/)
  - [Corporate & Financial](http://www.bankerssystem.com/)
  - [Health & Pharma](http://www.wkhealth.com/)
  - [Lippincott Williams & Wilkins](http://www.lww.com/)
  - [Tax, Accounting & Legal](http://www.aspenpublishers.com/)
- [Woodrow Wilson Center Press, The](http://www.wilsoncenter.org/)



- [Yale University Press](http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/home.asp)
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Image via Wikipedia  In my last post on scholarly publishers that support the US Congress SOPA bill I ended up making a series of edits. It was pointed out to me that the Macmillan listed as a supporter is not the Macmillan that is the parent group of Nature Publishing Group but a separate U.S. subsidiary of the same ultimate holding company, Holtzbrinck.

Update on publishers and SOPA: Time for scholarly publishers to disavow the AAP

Europe PMC Team

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[new online open access journal]{style="font-weight: bold;"} from
[Nature Publishing Group](http://www.nature.com/), [[Scientific
Reports]{style="font-style: italic;"}](http://www.nature.com/srep/index.html){style="font-weight: bold;"},
is now live.

The journal is a primary research publication covering all areas of the
natural sciences.

The APC for UK articles has been set at £1,112 (from January 2012).
[Scientific Reports]{style="font-style: italic;"} will apply to be
indexed in all relevant databases and repositories, and all content will
be archived in PubMed Central.
[More](http://www.nature.com/srep/about/index.html)
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A new online open access journal from Nature Publishing Group, Scientific Reports, is now live. The journal is a primary research publication covering all areas of the natural sciences. The APC for UK articles has been set at £1,112 (from January 2012). Scientific Reports will apply to be indexed in all relevant databases and repositories, and all content will be archived in PubMed Central.

Scientific Reports: a new open access journal from NPG

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[Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
have [announced](http://www.nature.com/press_releases/scientificreports.html) that
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Reports* -- in July
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entirely through article process charges (\$1350 per published article),
*[Scientific
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publish "*original research papers of interest to specialists within a
given field in the natural sciences.  It will not set a threshold of
perceived importance for the papers that it publishes;
rather, Scientific Reports will publish all papers that are judged to be
technically valid and original. To enable the community to evaluate the
importance of papers post-peer review, the Scientific Reports website
will include most-downloaded, most-emailed, and most-blogged
lists. *]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[*All
research papers will benefit from rapid peer review and publication, and
will be deposited in PubMed
Central.*"]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}  
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[]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[Authors
who publish in this journals will be given the choice
of ]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[[ two
Creative Commons non-commercial licenses ([attribution, non-commercial,
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[[]{style="line-height: 20px;"}]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[Other
publishers who have also announced new OA journals include Springer
(]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[[SpringerOpen](http://www.springeropen.com/)]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[),
BMJPG
(]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[[BMJOpen](http://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/)]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[),
Sage
(]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[[SageOpen](http://www.sagepub.com/sageopen/landing.sp)]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[)
and ASM'
(]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[[mBio](http://mbio.asm.org/)]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}[).]{style="font-family: \"arial\" , \"helvetica\" , sans-serif;"}  
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[Nature Publishing Group (NPG) have announced that they will be launching a fully open access journal  –
<em>
 Scientific Reports
</em>
– in July 2011.]{style=“font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [ ]{style=“font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} []{style=“font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”}[Funded entirely through article process charges ($1350 per published article),
<em>
 Scientific
</em>

NPG announce plans to launch a fully Open Access journal

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border="0"}](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ar3qGQzTnrE/SwbKbf1nErI/AAAAAAAAACw/a3YWplRtwCI/s1600/header_logo.jpg)Nature
Publishing Group (NPG) and the European Molecular Biology Organization
(EMBO) have
[announced](http://www.nature.com/press_releases/emboopen.html) that the
prices for site licence access to [The EMBO
Journal](http://www.nature.com/emboj/index.html) and [EMBO
reports](http://www.nature.com/embor/index.html) will be reduced by 9%
in 2010, reflecting the increased publication of Open Access content in
2008.

<div>

</div>

<div>

Only last month (October 2009) the Wellcome Trust called for greater
[transparency](http://ukpmc.blogspot.com/2009/10/wellcome-trust-calls-for-greater.html)
among publishers to counter the argument that access fees are being paid
twice -- once through subscriptions and again through publication fees.

</div>

<div>

</div>

<div>

This decision by EMBO/NPG to reduce subscription is clearly a step in
the right direction, though in the interests of transparency it would be
useful if publishers -- as a first step -- disclosed what proportion of
their content was routed through the author-pays model.

</div>


Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) have announced that the prices for site licence access to The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports will be reduced by 9% in 2010, reflecting the increased publication of Open Access content in 2008.

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Update on publishers and SOPA: Time for scholarly publishers to disavow the AAP

Scientific Reports: a new open access journal from NPG

NPG announce plans to launch a fully Open Access journal

Open Access uptake prompts 9% price reduction for The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports