Grasping at straws

Grasping at straws

"Last week, “Inside Higher Ed” ran an article about the release by the White House of all the commentssubmitted to the Office of Science and Technology Policy in response to their request for information about public access to federally-funded research.  I was gratified to see that they chose to quote from the comments submitted by the Duke University Libraries.  But I was also appalled when I read the quote from comments submitted by the publisher Wiley Blackwell in response to the question about appropriate embargo periods for public access.  The Wiley official wrote that “Any embargo period is a dramatic shortening of the period of copyright protection afforded all publishers.”