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

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Rayna <rayna.st at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 :(
>

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.


>
>
>
>>>> 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
>> CB2 1EW, UK
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>>
>


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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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