Source: Ars Technica
The ADA's decision to eject scientists for distributing reprints of their own peer-reviewed work shows how aggressively some professional organizations police access to information, ostensibly to protect journal publishing arrangements and corporate sponsors. Researchers who want to share their findings with peers at conferences now must navigate copyright restrictions and institutional gatekeeping, even when the work is publicly funded and already published. This exposes a tension between scientific culture, where disseminating findings is the purpose, and the commercial publishing ecosystem that now controls professional gatherings themselves.