Making huge waves in the blogosphere, the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine (PRISM) has been established by AAP and partners to ‘protect the integrity of scientific research’. They’ve already come under fire in the early days of their website release with claims of the use of copyright protected images on their site. The pro-Open Access movement has fired off numerous responses, including an open letter from Peter Murray-Rust at Cambridge to Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press, questioning their support for PRISMs aims. Alma Swan has also weighed in with her thoughts, and much of the conversations are being recorded, as usual, by Peter Suber in his Open Access News blog…
Also hitting the blogosphere headlines, yesterday’s Guardian newspaper contained an article discussing peer review with the British Academy, a collection of 800 scholars in the humanities and social sciences answering some of the questions put toward the integrity and usefulness of peer review lately.
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