Gordon & Breach, the European publisher of science journals, is making news again. The last time the company did so was in 1990, when they sued physicist Henry Barschall, the American Institute of Physics (AIP), and the American Physical Society (APS)(AL, Sept. 1989, p. 717-718). At that time, American Libraries learned that the company had also threatened academic library administrators with legal action-essentially because they'd said publicly that the prices of G&B journals were high. Barschall'salleged offense was to survey the cost of physics journals; his findings appeared in Physics Today, the monthly magazine of AIP. After extensive negotiations, the professional organization refused to publish a Gordon & Breach-prepared correction. The company filed suit in France, Germany, and Switzerland for false advertising and a Gordon & Breach attorney said a U.S. suit was being considered.
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