[open-science] Crucially overlooked Ebola research article is paywalled at... Elsevier

[Ross Mounce]

Hi folks,

I hope you've all read the interesting piece in the New York Times last
week about global & local knowledge of Ebola being hampered in part by
paywalls and publisher-imposed restrictions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/opinion/yes-we-were-warned-about-ebola.html

What I've only just learnt is where the crucial paper is - PMR & the
ContentMine team struggled to find it ourselves!

The paper containing crucial, overlooked knowledge, hidden behind a paywall
is for sale at Elsevier for $31.50 + tax:

Knobloch, J., Albiez, E. J., and Schmitz, H. 1982. A serological survey on
viral haemorrhagic fevers in liberia. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur /
Virologie 133:125-128.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0769261782800282

Peter Murray-Rust has said before that "Closed Access Kills". This may be
another reasonably concrete example.

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