A SCANDAL? STM ISSUE HEATS UP WITH PLOS TV ADS, LEGISLATIONFor years the academic library community has fought what it has called a serials crisis in STM publishing, slowly making headway in pushing the public's interests vs. the interests of commercial publishers. Those efforts now appear not only to have taken root, but bloomed. This week a national campaign will shift into gear, breaking the STM issue out of library conferences and professional literature and onto popular television. A TV commercial, funded by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), touting free access to publicly funded research, will run during episodes...
