The Research Works Act: An inexcusable assault on open access and on science

"There seems to be a major disconnect between the research and publishing worlds as to who is the real producer of a scientific article. The AAP opposes “free public dissemination of journal articles that report on research which, to some degree, has been federally-funded but is produced and published by private sector publishers”. Wait, who produces the research? Not the scientists? Using taxpayer money? When the publishers step in at the end of the process to publish the final manuscript, is this really sufficient to say they now own the intellectual product? ..."