A few special interests, namely certain commercial publishers, have spearheaded this act by making claims about open access publishing that fly in the face of reality, e.g., the success of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and the fact that the peer review process is alive and well in math and physics despite the extensive use of the arXiv.org preprint server ahead of publication. - Ruchira S. Datta

See more about the Research Works Act here: http://scienceblogs.com/confess... - Ruchira S. Datta