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

[Peter Murray-Rust]

Many thanks Stu,

Yes FOI benefits a great deal from community activity and communal tools.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Stuart Lawson <stuart.a.lawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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