Surprise!
The APA has pulled down the notification I posted about yesterday and is apparently rethinking things.
Veddy veddy interesting. I hear through the grapevine that librarians were going to faculty who edit APA journals and asking whether they liked what they saw. If that worked, which is admittedly still to be determined, it suggests that such outreach should be standard procedure in cases like this. Find the editors on your campus, lay out what’s going on, ask whether it’s all right by them.
Which I like. It’s the same grassroots impulse that makes campus permissions mandates impossible to stop. It’s not coercive, not even propagandist; it’s merely informative. What faculty do with the information is their business.
I think I’ll settle back with some popcorn and watch the show…
Edited to add: And a lovely idea for an editorial cartoon by my esteemed colleague, who giveth me to hack on XSLT.