On 24 May 2016 15:21, Peretsman-Clement, Gail wrote: > Good morning colleagues, > > At Caltech Library, a new development from the commercial publisher > Elsevier around researcher practices and workflows - including Open > Science approaches -- has come to our attention. I'm wondering if any > folks have been working with this initiative? > > http://labs.elsevier.com/ > > https://www.elsevier.com/connect/what-happens-when-user-experience-pros-come-to-your-lab > > We in the Library community are dedicated to keeping researcher and > author training in the commons and in community, so wonder what impact > Elsevier's work in this area might have. Will it eclipse the role of > libraries and other information intermediaries/trainers on campus? > > Would be very interested in your thoughts!
Commercialisation of Carpentry activites is certainly worth discussing, but ... Elsevier's only goal, as a company, is to increase their profits. Their strategy is to take control - this includes publishing, preprints (SSRN), research metrics (Mendeley), ... of the academic infrastructure. The benefits of the community, researchers, librarians, or anyone is secondary. They have demonstrated this over and over again. I don't think anything that Elsevier could offer is worth that. Best wishes, Laurent > Best wishes, > > Gail > > Gail P. Clement | Head of Research Services | Caltech Library | Mail Code > 1-43 | Pasadena CA 91125-4300 | 626-395-1203 > http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-4806 | library.caltech.edu > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss -- Laurent Gatto | @lgatt0 http://cpu.sysbiol.cam.ac.uk/ http://lgatto.github.io/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
