[GOAL] Deal in France, no deal in The Netherlands
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 offer for a new deal for the years ahead: http://www.vsnu.nl/news/newsitem/11-negotiations-between-elsevier-and-universities-failed.html. The Dutch required major steps towards Open Access, but apparently Elsevier did not want to move enough to satisfy the Dutch negotiators. According to the press release by VSNU, the Dutch association of universities, researchers are now likely faced to have no access to Elsevier journals from January 2015. In a dutch newspaper, De Volkskrant, the negotiators said that perhaps scholars will need to email authors to get access, or to use versions available in repositories. I think this is a major test case: a full small country (although medium sized in research output) having no access to new content in Elsevier journals. Jeroen Bosman ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Re: Deal in France, no deal in The Netherlands
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. Sent from my iPad On 5 Nov 2014, at 14:13, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) j.bos...@uu.nl wrote: image001.gif 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 offer for a new deal for the years ahead: http://www.vsnu.nl/news/newsitem/11-negotiations-between-elsevier-and-universities-failed.html. The Dutch required major steps towards Open Access, but apparently Elsevier did not want to move enough to satisfy the Dutch negotiators. According to the press release by VSNU, the Dutch association of universities, researchers are now likely faced to have no access to Elsevier journals from January 2015. In a dutch newspaper, De Volkskrant, the negotiators said that perhaps scholars will need to email authors to get access, or to use versions available in repositories. I think this is a major test case: a full small country (although medium sized in research output) having no access to new content in Elsevier journals. Jeroen Bosman ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Re: Deal in France, no deal in The Netherlands
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 beyond. Jean-Claude Guédon Le mercredi 05 novembre 2014 à 08:28 +, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) a écrit : 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 offer for a new deal for the years ahead: http://www.vsnu.nl/news/newsitem/11-negotiations-between-elsevier-and-universities-failed.html. The Dutch required major steps towards Open Access, but apparently Elsevier did not want to move enough to satisfy the Dutch negotiators. According to the press release by VSNU, the Dutch association of universities, researchers are now likely faced to have no access to Elsevier journals from January 2015. In a dutch newspaper, De Volkskrant, the negotiators said that perhaps scholars will need to email authors to get access, or to use versions available in repositories. I think this is a major test case: a full small country (although medium sized in research output) having no access to new content in Elsevier journals. Jeroen Bosman ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Re: Deal in France, no deal in The Netherlands
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 would have generated a spirit of resistance that would have quickly spread across Europe and beyond. Jean-Claude Guédon I agree, I have already tweeted my support. It's cheaper to fly from Amsterdam to London (75 GBP) and back than read two papers for 1 day from Elsevier. The Dutch could come and use our public libraries for free ... and use the money for science. This is not only costing money it's destroying chunks of science and other scholarship. And destroying careers. I have the honour of being asked to give an invited talk at OpenCon ( http://www.opencon2014.org/) (in Washington) where students and early career researchers are discussing Open Access. I'm embarrased with our generation's feeble attitude to Open Access and shall say so.The student generation is angry with our legacy, and rightly. Unless we take massive concerted action to fight - as the Dutch are starting to do, and in many other ways - we shall have let them down. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Profile of Danny Kingsley in USKG journal Insights
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, before I accepted the position at Cambridge University - something they mention right at the end. Anyway, for those interested in my position on all things open access, the DOI is here http://dx.doi.org/10.1629/2048-7754.185 It is available open access of course. Danny Dr Danny Kingsley Visiting Fellow Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) p: +61 413 101 197 w: http://cpas.anu.edu.au/about-us/people/danny-kingsley t: @openaccess_oz ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
