At the 13th Carnival of the Infosciences, T Scott Plutchak, Director of Lister Hill Library of Health Sciences, directs us to a post on his blog regarding the DC Principles for Free Access to Science, who propose another open access model for scientific/medical research. Plutchak believes librarians need to buy in to the DC Principles model. He believes, the DC Prinicples and librarians share the same goal, "to get scholarly information into the hands of those who need it. My biggest frustration with the whole open access debate is that it has put librarians and the society publishers in opposition. Instead of working together to transform scholarly publishing, we waste time and energy arguing. This proposal is an opportunity to get us all on the same side of the fence -- where we ought to be."

The debate continues into the comments section of his post.