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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