Why should advisers encourage their students to publish? For the answer, read this post by TR Gregory.
Why is the publishing industry afraid of open access? I can't answer that question, but I can point you to the evidence for their fear: it's right here. Jonathan Eisen points out why PRISM, the anti-open access lobbying group, is total bullshit. The Open Reading Frame doesn't like it either.
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There's a nice rebuttal of the Sirsi Dynix anti-open source white paper done by Mark Leggott that just came out (I found it via
This is about the only appropriate response to the absurdity of the the anti-open access organization PRISM.
This is all over the blogosphere already, but since I occasionally blog about open access issues, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the controversy over a new anti-open access organization called
The title of this post might be a bit misleading. I don't really think it's much of a question.
Of course it's ok to get paid to promote open access.
PRISM smacks of hypocrisy, first and foremost for not paying for their homepage images until bloggers across the internet pointed out that they were in infringement:
http://www.itgumbo.com/mumbogumbo/2007/08/hypocrisy_scandals_shock_inte…