Over last few days we witnessed Elsevier reaching a new 5-year deal with French
Universities, for 33,4 M euro's per year: http://scoms.hypotheses.org/293. The
deal is also said to have a data mining paragraph. Almost at the same time news
broke that Dutch universities did not accept Elsevier's
Given the significance of Elsevier's deep Dutch roots, this is a very powerful
statement by the Dutch universities. It will be interesting to see whether
Elsevier has the flexibility that will be needed if it is to continue to serve
research and education well.
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On 5 Nov
We should all get behind the Dutch universities and tell them to stand
firm, and tell them that we are going to do all that is possible to
help them.
And the French should have done the same. This would have generated a
spirit of resistance that would have quickly spread across Europe and
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Jean-Claude Guédon
jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca wrote:
We should all get behind the Dutch universities and tell them to stand
firm, and tell them that we are going to do all that is possible to help
them.
And the French should have done the same. This
Hi all,
A profile of me, Dr Danny Kingsley, Executive Officer of Australian Open Access
Support Group, and soon to be Head of Scholarly Communications at Cambridge
University, has appeared in UKSG journal Insights Nov 2014 issue (Volume 27, No
3).
The interview happened earlier this year,
