[GOAL] Re: ACS Congratulates the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners

[FrederickFriend]

Why is it that whenever ACS attempt to make a generous gesture it comes 
across as mean-hearted, especially by comparison with an equivalent action 
by the American Physical Society? No time-limit set by APS on access to the 
papers of the Physics Nobel Prizewinners but ACS say "free for a limited 
time". Perhaps a trivial matter but - as Stevan Harnad pointed out on the 
GOAL list - APS has an excellent record on research-friendly OA policies, 
and as a member of their Library Committee in the 1980s I found APS very 
open about their journal budgets and their very small surpluses. The moral 
is that APS have not suffered any loss as a result of their long-standing 
open attitude in both the subscription and OA worlds, and indeed have 
enhanced their reputation. So why cannot more society journal publishers in 
the US and Europe follow the example of APS in its research-friendly 
decisions and not come across as commercial enterprises defending their 
profit margins? It is a question of organisational culture.

Fred Friend
Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL
http://www.friendofopenaccess.org.uk

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Subject: ACS Congratulates the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners

From: Brett R. Thomas <B_Thomas at acs.org>
Date: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:01 AM

ACS Congratulates the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners

ACS Publications congratulates long time authors Robert J. Lefkowitz
and Brian K. Kobilka on winning the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
their studies of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).  These receptors
allow cells in the body to sense and respond to outside signals and
are the target for several commonly prescribed prescription drugs
including beta blockers, antihistamines and antidepressants.

ACS Publications also congratulates Accounts of Chemical Research
author David Wineland on the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics and Crystal
Growth & Design author Shinya Yamanaka on the 2012 Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine.

View their research from ACS journals free for a limited time.

<http://c.acs.org/cyatb/511866/0/208052/20363/0/D/0/0/xivv.html>