[Open-access] [open-science] Elsevier: some facts, by Tim Gowers

Fri May 2 13:48:09 UTC 2014

> I would think that copyright law always includes fair use policy which applies especially to use for educational purposes?

Not so – organisations (universities, hospitals) pay millions of pounds a year for the privilege of photocopying published material.

In the UK this activity is coordinated by the CLA (https://www.cla.co.uk/) – who intimidate organisations to buy licenses from them by offering substantial rewards to whistleblowers to dob in their employers (http://www.scotsman.com/news/163-100k-for-nhs-copyright-whistleblowers-1-1795580).

Of course, if all the scholarly literature were available on an open access basis you wouldn’t need a CLA license…

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From: open-access [mailto:open-access-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Tom Olijhoek
Sent: 02 May 2014 11:01
To: Peter Murray-Rust
Cc: Fabiana Kubke; Bjoern Brembs; open-access at lists.okfn.org; open-science
Subject: Re: [Open-access] [open-science] Elsevier: some facts, by Tim Gowers

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk<mailto:pm286 at cam.ac.uk>> wrote:

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Fabiana Kubke <mf.kubke at gmail.com<mailto:mf.kubke at gmail.com>> wrote:
I am a bit late to the discussion - but if anyone is interested there is interesting data on library expenditures in New Zealand and Australia here http://statistics.caul.edu.au/inst_data.php

You're not late... :-) this is very welcome.

If I read hte data correctly, New Zealand spends about 50 million p.a. (NZ Dollars) in serial subscriptions. This does not include the copyright licencing fees that allow the reuse for education (as far as I understand).

Can you expand on the re-use fees? This is an additional cost to subscriptions. Re-use payments are at least as problematic as subscriptions. But even harder to get a handle on. (?more FOIs?)

I would think that copyright law always includes fair use policy which applies especially to use for educational purposes?

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