AAP, Science, T&F, and Lemons

["Ann Okerson" <aokerson@gmail.com>]

From:  Library Journal Academic Newswire
Thursday, 29 November 2007

Picks and Pans: Charleston Advisor's 2007 Reader's Choice Awards

The Charleston Advisor (TCA) announced its seventh annual 
Reader's Choice Awards for products and services in academic 
libraries, although "winning" one of these awards isn't always a 
good thing. For example, the 2007 Lemon Award went to the 
Association of American Publishers for PRISM (The Partnership for 
Research Integrity in Science and Medicine), the controversial 
web initiative created to oppose efforts to make publicly-funded 
research free on the web. "These publishers should not bite the 
hand that feeds them," warned the Lemon Award's tart 
announcement.

In the other not-so-distinguished categories, the first-ever 
"About Face Awards," chartered this year to "point out retrograde 
motion in the publisher/vendor community," went to the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science for its decision to 
pull future issues of Science from JSTOR and to Taylor and 
Francis for their removal of content from Ebrary.

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