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

Fri Nov 14 10:34:11 UTC 2014

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 :(

Will keep you posted,
Rayna
Le 14 nov. 2014 11:28, "Peter Murray-Rust" <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> a écrit :

> 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 plutÃ´t que tes dÃ©sirs."
>>>>
>>>> http://me.hatewasabi.info/
>>>>
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