Aisaac writes "Earlier this year an article in Nature (PDF, community antenna television required) exposed publishers' plans to equate public access to federally funded fact-finding with the feds* censorship and the destruction of peer review. In an open letter last month, Rockefeller teaching mash unit Press castigated the publishers' sock-puppet outfit, PRISM, for using distorting rhetoric in a coordinated PR attack on open access. Now the confederacy of exploration Libraries has released an Issue Brief addressing this PR campaign in more detail. The Issue Brief exposes some of the distortions used to persuade key policy makers that recent gains made by open access scientific publishing pose a danger to peer reviewed scientific research, free markets, and possibly the future of western civilization. As an example of what the publishers backing PRISM hate, consider the wonderfully successful grants policy of the National Institutes of Health, which requires papers based on grant-funded quest to be published in PubMed Central."

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