yes!

I’ve had a long, long hiatus on this blog… but I’m coming out of premature retirement to shout a hearty “Hear, hear!” for what Mike Rossner, Executive Director of Rockefeller University Press had to say about the  American Association of Publishers PRISM “initiative.” I’m sure anyone reading library blogs is already in the know about OAP (open access publishing) and the state of STM publications, but reading that letter alone will give most people a good grasp of the dynamics at work here. The great thing was, I read about Rossner’s letter first on the Machinist blog at Salon and then on Caveat Lector–so this is resonating far beyond the biblioblogosphere, which is great to see given that it is an issue that affects all taxpayers whether they know it or not.