| Comment Number: | 522292-00021 |
| Received: | 12/12/2006 3:51:52 PM |
| Organization: | Information Access Alliance |
| Commenter: | Karla Hahn |
| State: | DC |
| Agency: | Federal Trade Commission |
| Rule: | Consumer Benefits and Harms: How Best to Distinguish Aggressive, Pro-Consumer Competition from Business Conduct to Attain or Maintain a Monopoly |
| Docket ID: | To Be Added |
| Attachments: | 522292-00021.pdf Download Adobe Reader |
Comments:
The attached document provides a statement by Thomas M. Susman on behalf of the Information Access Alliance. The Information Access Alliance (IAA) was created to allow library associations to share resources to explore the potential of focusing antitrust enforcement on promoting competition in the scholarly publishing marketplace. The members of the Information Access Alliance are Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association for College and Research Libraries, the American Association of Law Libraries, the Medical Library Association, the Special Library Association, and SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. The contact person for the IAA is Karla Hahn, Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the Association of Research Libraries. She can be reached by phone at 202.296.2296 or by email at karla@arl.org.