Anti-Open-Access Effort by Publishing Group Loses Another University Press

by E Wayne Ross on October 9, 2007

The Chronicle News Blog: Anti-Open-Access Effort by Publishing Group Loses Another University Press

Another top university press has registered its displeasure with Prism, a controversial anti-open-access lobbying effort undertaken by the Association of American Publishers. Ellen Faran, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, has resigned from the executive council of the association’s Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division. Even so, Ms. Faran told The Chronicle in an e-mail message, “The Prism Web site continues to give the incorrect impression that it has the unanimous support of the Executive Council.”