The academic publishing system has bothered me for some time, seems like it’s only getting worse:
The Research Works Act, introduced in the US Congress on 16 December, amounts to a declaration of war by the publishers.
Sounds like the act is basically an end-run around the NIH rules requiring open access. Nice. I’m pleased to see my society is not part of the Association of American Publishers, which fully supports the legislation.
Gravitropic 