[Open-access] Fwd: [open-science] Yesterday, we leaked the French agreement with Elsevier

[Stuart Lawson]

I'm one of the people that's been using the UK's FOI laws to release data.
I'm happy to talk to anyone other countries with FOI laws who wants to do a
similar thing (or this can be done on the wiki that OK have set up:
http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Access/OA_FOI).

Thanks,
Stuart

On 14 November 2014 02:53, Subbiah Arunachalam <
subbiah.arunachalam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations to Rayna,  Pierre-Carl Langlais, Jenny and Katelyn for
> making this widely known. In India every consortium signs such secret
> contracts although all the money they pay the publishers come from the
> taxpayers. In the US and UK activists have used Freedom of Information Act
> to bring out the contracts into the open. At least in two cases a major
> publisher objected to it but the courts turned down their unjust
> objections. There is a Right to Information provision in India and we must
> use it to get the details of the contracts consortia sign with publishing
> companies.
>
> Arun
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>>  Likely to be of interest to the Open Access list too.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: [open-science] Yesterday,
>> we leaked the French agreement with Elsevier  Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014
>> 16:49:38 +0100  From: Rayna <rayna.st at gmail.com> <rayna.st at gmail.com>  To:
>> open-science <open-science at lists.okfn.org> <open-science at lists.okfn.org>,
>> "open-access at lists.okfn.org" <open-access at lists.okfn.org>
>> <open-access at lists.okfn.org> <open-access at lists.okfn.org>
>>
>> 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.Â
>>
>>  With precious help from Jenny and Katelyn, the piece is now available
>> in English on the main OKF blog:Â
>> 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
>>
>>  --
>>  "Change l'ordre du monde plutôt que tes désirs."
>>
>> http://me.hatewasabi.info/
>>
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