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

[Stuart Lawson]

I agree with Peter there. FOI laws, and publisher license terms, do vary
slightly between countries, but I think it's worth testing by sending maybe
a few to start with.
On 14 Nov 2014 10:39, "Peter Murray-Rust" <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Rayna <rayna.st at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hey everyone,
>> Thanks for highlighting the FOI requests. As you may imagine, we have
>> considerd such an option. Yet, the principle of 'commercial
>> convidentiality' prevails, thus response would be negative or we'd get a
>> censored doc which is therefore useless :(
>>
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> It's worth persevering. Read Tim Gowers blog. He got many negative replies
> but after repeated efforts he got all UK university payments to Elsevier.
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>>>>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org>
>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>  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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> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
> +44-1223-763069
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