MIT Press disavows the AAP's position on the Research Works Act, but doesn't withdraw its membership: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2012... - Catherine Pellegrino

ITHAKA (parent organization of JSTOR) disavows the AAP's position on the Research Works Act, but doesn't withdraw its membership: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2012... - Catherine Pellegrino

CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) is embarrassed to admit that it hadn't realized it was a member of the AAP, disavows their position on the Research Works Act, and states its intention to withdraw its membership: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2012... - Catherine Pellegrino

(Links to additional coverage on the three we have thus far are also welcome; I just posted the three quickest links I could find.) - Catherine Pellegrino

Honorary Mention to the University of Michigan Library for a comprehensive statement in response to the White House OSTP's request for comment: http://www.lib.umich.edu/news... (UofM Press is not a member of the AAP, but the UofM Medical School is.) - Catherine Pellegrino

Penn State UP disavows AAP's position on RWA, doesn't leave AAP: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2012... - RepoRat

ALA says the right thing: http://www.districtdispatch.org/2012... - RepoRat

SLA call to action: http://slaconnections.typepad.com/public_... (which was emailed to the membership today). - Marianne

Academic Libraries of Indiana has composed a letter to...somebody...on the subject. That'll turn the tide for sure. </sarcasm> - Catherine Pellegrino

Hey, they said something. Go them for being a good example. *How* many academic librarians look at scholarly-communication issues, EVEN TODAY, and say "not my problem" or (*glares at someone who knows damn well who he is*) "this is awful, but we mustn't actually SAY anything to anyone about it where we might be overheard"? - RepoRat

There's some indication that Mike Rossner has weighed in: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog... I'd kinda like to see a better source, though. Have asked on Twitter. - RepoRat

Eisen just tweeted that it's real. Good enough for me. - RepoRat

Poynder reports email from U of CA distancing selves from RWA. Sort of. Diplomospeak. - barbara fister

Updated my post last night with this new info. - Andy

Is it telling that when scholarly presses wish to correct the record, it's through email, not web? Is this not wanting to own it, or that they don't really know how to work that web thing? - barbara fister

It's a cultural thing. I've gotten *so* many emails from publishing types that would have been better as blog posts. I think part of it is the expectation that issues will be worked out genteelly behind the scenes, with the corollary that if you try to shame or intimidate people privately, they'll stop criticizing you publicly. Not really the world we live in, now, but... - RepoRat

hmm. Makes me feel as of I'm taking dictation for them. - barbara fister from iPhone

I think this same cultural difference is apparent between librarian management and librarian labour on this issue, and others just as library funding cutbacks. Personally, I think they can work in tandem in their own ways. - copystar

If allowed to. - RepoRat

Never thought I'd be adding them to this list, but: Nature Publishing Group, Digital Science, and Palgrave are opposing SOPA/PIPA: http://www.digital-science.com/nature-... and NPG/Digital Science are opposing RWA: http://www.nature.com/press_r... - Catherine Pellegrino

WHOA. *headasplode* - jambina

Since their websites could be brought down by a plagiarized paper, color me unsurprised. - Andy