[Open-access] Yesterday, we leaked the French agreement with Elsevier

[Tom Olijhoek]

Congratulations. This is really great work that you have done.
I would like to call on everyone in our networks to duplicate this and find
out the details about new BigDeals in other countries!

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Rayna <rayna.st at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Just a short message to highlight a piece we wrote with Pierre-Carl
> Langlais (@Dorialexander). It was published in a prominent online
> publication yesterday, in French and was aimed to release the recently
> concluded agreement between the French Ministry of Research and Elsevier.
>
> With precious help from Jenny and Katelyn, the piece is now available in
> English on the main OKF blog:
> http://blog.okfn.org/2014/11/11/france-prefers-to-pay-twice-for-papers-by-its-researchers/
>
> Such secret contracts are what hinders any meaningful incentive to an Open
> Access policy. This is the first installment in a series of materials we
> will be running in the coming weeks, aiming to achieve greater transparency
> (and later on, to conquer the world ;) ).
>
> Comments, insights, ideas, tweets, etc. greatly appreciated,
> Rayna
>
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> "Change l'ordre du monde plutôt que tes désirs."
>
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