Greetings all, the Association of University of Presses (AUP) just released a long-awaited statement addressing the threat of state censorship of academic publications called "Facing Censorship: a Statement of Guiding Principles". It has become to clear to all stakeholders that collective responses to state censorship pressures will be the most effective way forward, and journal editors and individual authors need the backing of larger institutions. The AUP is an organization of more than 140 international nonprofit scholarly publishers--this statement has weight! Nicole Mitchell, Association President, and Director, University of Washington Press, stated that, "The board felt that it was important for the Association to make a clear affirmation of our community's values and to provide some guidance for any of our member presses who may be called upon to change the shape of the scholarly record." The AUP statement emphasizes that, when facing requests to limit access to particular components of a digital collection (as happened to Cambridge University Press): "AUPresses encourages university presses generally to withhold their consent to any such request, whether made directly or via a third-party aggregator, even if doing so results in the unavailability of the entire digital collection within that market. Scholarly integrity mandates that scholars and students accessing digital content encounter the same body of content, regardless of their geographic location. Additionally, even when digital access to content is available at increasingly granular levels (e.g., a journal article, a book chapter), any bowdlerization of a curated collection of scholarship (e.g., a journal issue, an edited volume) does damage to the editorial work invested in the construction of that collection. Acquiescence to government requests to restrict access inevitably would produce a disfigurement of the scholarly record." This statement is a good way to bolster our responses to requests for our peer review service, whether or not the requesting journal is a member of AUP.