>Sandy
>
>I was interested in your parenthetic comment that Penn
State
>University Press is 'not an endorser of PRISM'. Can I
just
>confirm that you do not intend signing-up to the PRISM
>initiative?
Yes, as it is currently conceived.
>
>If not, this would make you, by my count, the 7th
publisher to
>publicly disassociate itself from PRISM (joining the
university
>presses of Rockefeller, Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, and
Chicago,
>together with Nature Publishing). As far as I can tell
no
>publisher has publicly endorsed PRISM, but I hope they
will
>produce a list of coalition members shortly.
Efforts are under way to massage the PRISM message in ways
that make
it more palatable to those of us PSP members who could not
endorse
the initial statement; some changes have already appeared on
the
PRISM site. Others will undoubtedly follow. Whether our
press or
other university presses will ultimately feel comfortable
with it
enough in a revised form to offer our public support remains
to be
seen.
>
>Thanks
>
>David
>
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