Re:Max Planck Society Discontinues Agreement with Elsevier
by Protohedgehog on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:12AM
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Just a note that we have asked the European Commission to investigate Elsevier for abuse of a dominant market position: https://zenodo.org/record/1472045, and also now Education International (32 million members, 400 member organisations) are taking the fight to them through academic unions. https://bit.ly/2PPjwRK
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Re:Max Planck Society Discontinues Agreement with Elsevier
by MrGunn on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:56AM
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I wish people would work on the systemic issues of access, rather than acting like Elsevier is somehow uniquely responsible. If Elsevier disappeared overnight, there would still be the other 84% of the market.
Efforts like the above just lead to the open access movement getting co-opted by anti-capitalists, which hurts progress.
Re:Max Planck Society Discontinues Agreement with Elsevier
by dmitriz on Thursday December 27, 2018 @09:35AM
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Overview of distribution of costs by 5 main publishers -- Elsevier share is larger than all other 4 large publishers combined:
https://oa2020.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/B14-12-Lidiia-Bor...