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Mon Feb 27 12:25:50 UTC 2012

Hi,

I put the link to Gowers Weblog on the home page of @ccess.

Tom

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Nick Barnes <nb at climatecode.org> wrote:

> Who Needs Access? Academics Need Access!  See this paragraph from Tim
> Gowers' latest blog post:
>
> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/elseviers-open-letter-point-by-point-and-some-further-arguments
>
> As for the report they refer to, it again is very hard to interpret
> without a lot more information. My experience with Elsevier papers is
> this. If an author has taken the trouble to put a paper on the arXiv
> or on his or her homepage, then access to that article is easy (no
> thanks to Elsevier); otherwise, it is virtually impossible. Probably
> if I made more effort, I would be able to work out how to get access
> to Elsevier articles via Cambridge University’s subscriptions to their
> journals. But if I’m working from home, then I know that that is a
> complicated process that involves setting up some kind of account with
> our computer services — I tried it once but didn’t follow through to
> the end. In practice, if an article is behind the Elsevier paywall, I
> don’t read that article. Does that make me an outlier? Am I one of the
> 7%? Is my situation even part of what the question covers? I haven’t
> tried recently, but maybe if I tried to open an Elsevier article from
> the computer in my departmental office I would have no trouble. But
> all that would say is that Elsevier didn’t have a completely stupid
> system for opening articles.
>
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