Elsevier distances itself from open-access article

The publisher Elsevier has disassociated itself from an article by a trade association it belongs to that condemns proposed open-access mandates in several US states.

See the comment by Mike Taylor beyond the article mentioned above and also see this blog post by Peter Suber, who will start as Harvard’s director of the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) from July 1, 2013. Information Today reports on this topic as well, revealing the network behind it.