Interesting discussion in Salon, provoked by a brief blog review of an article in Nature:

The free information movement is really coming of age, if one is to judge by the enemies it’s making. Nature has a doozy of an article out this week reporting that a group of scientific publishers, including Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society, have hired a notorious public relations gunslinger to fight back against those kooks who think scientific information should be freely accessible to all.

Science publishers get stupid, Andrew Leonard, How the World Works, Salon, 25 Jan 2007