Publishers Have A New Strategy For Neutralizing Open Access — And It’s Working

This seems to be the publishers’ new strategy against open access: not to fight it directly, but to use constant lobbying to inflict a kind of death by a thousand cuts — slicing off a provision here, lengthening an embargo there, pushing implementation further and further into the future — until the final result is almost no different from the status quo.

Blog entry on TechDirt.