If they changed their position it is because of EU guidelines on open science and consequently more open publishing.
And since penalties imposed by EU for violating rules are very stiff, they may be changing their ways ahead of trouble. Milton Ponson GSM: +297 747 8280 PO Box 1154, Oranjestad Aruba, Dutch Caribbean Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide by creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide and: providing online access to web sites and repositories of data and information for sustainable development This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. ________________________________ From: David Booth <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; "community, Linked" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:31 PM Subject: Re: CFP: Journal of Web Semantics special issue on life science and e-science Have Elsevier's policies against Open Science changed? Thousands of researchers started boycotting them last year: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/researchers-boycott-elsevier-journal-publisher.html?_r=0 David On 03/14/2013 05:16 PM, Tim Finin wrote: > The Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics (http://bit.ly/ElsJWS) > seeks submission of papers for a special issue on Life Science and > e-Science (http://bit.ly/JWSlses) edited by Tim Clark and Marco > Roos. Submission are due by 2013-7-31 with acceptances in November, > preprints online in December and hardcopy published in early 2014. > > > > >
