It might be worth pointing out that Elsevier is also asking its own service provider Mendeley to take down PDFs, although the details are sketchy.
See here: https://twitter.com/TomReller/status/411173848596217856 And here: https://twitter.com/RickyPo/status/411215635968847872 And here: http://www.elsevier.com/connect/a-comment-on-takedown-notices Richard Poynder From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Subbiah Arunachalam Sent: 15 December 2013 05:42 To: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum; Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); [email protected]; LIS-Forum; oadl Subject: [GOAL] Fwd: Elsevier's Unforced Error If, after all this, the scientists of the world do not unite now and revive the 'Boycott Elsevier' movement, we cannot blame the publisher hereafter. How can governments and funding bodies which support research remain silent spectators and let publishing companies hijack the copyright to the research results? Arun ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: LIBLICENSE <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:43 AM Subject: Elsevier's Unforced Error To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 16:11:37 http://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-from-academia-edu / For those who are unhappy with decades of Elsevier's policies, practices, pricing, and even their recent purchase of Mendeley, their unforced error in issuing take-down notices is an amazing, mistaken and ultimately self-destructive decision on Elsevier's part. Anyone who has any disagreement with Elsevier on any issue: copyright, OA policies, hybrid journals, OA pricing, pricing in general, control of backfiles, text mining, any of a myriad of issues including, their crazy if you mandate it you can't do it IR policy and their standard refusal to permit re-printing "their" research, should publicize this far and wide. Elsevier, no matter what they say, has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt in this action, their limited understanding of their remit, their control of scholarly research, They are nobody's friend's except their shareholders. They have demonstrated their DNA, their belief in their right to control the content scholars and researchers create and publish with Elsevier. They are wrong. What copyright law says is irrelevant in this, what authors want to do with their own research is paramount. It might have been masked before under the guise of impact factors and collegial editorial board meetings in locations worldwide and smart as a whip editors, and outreach at conferences, and invitations to "publish your research with us" and PR, and more or less "green" OA policies, and excellent inhouse readings of directions in future trends, and all the other trappings and expertise they have in academic publishing which is at the top of its game. Those trapping are insufficient. Elsevier and its cynical relationship with authors and institutions, has been demonstrated by Elsevier itself. No one could have done this to them but themselves. The tide of OA, of authors making sure people who need to see it, get to read their research, OA in all its guises, is inexorable and if handled correctly even by such behemoths as Elsevier, will lift all boats in the publishing stream, despite the scaremongers and naysayers in publishing, or the mistaken advice of some in libraries, or even among OA advocates themselves. It's logic is persuasive, its goals commensurate ultimately with what authors want for their own research. To put up and enforce barriers to what scholars want to distribute that they themselves produce is antediluvian. Elsevier's unforced error may be more effective than any boycott. Chuck Hamaker _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com> Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3658/6920 - Release Date: 12/14/13
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