Publishers’ Group Reportedly Hires P.R. Firm to Counter Push for Free Access to Research Results

by E Wayne Ross on January 29, 2007

The Chronicle: Publishers’ Group Reportedly Hires P.R. Firm to Counter Push for Free Access to Research Results

The Association of American Publishers has hired a publics-relations firm with a hard-hitting reputation to counter the open-access publishing movement, which campaigns for scientific results to be made freely available to the public, the journal Nature reported on Wednesday.