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

Wed Apr 15 15:33:20 UTC 2015

@Thomas: +1

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 15 April 2015 at 10:11, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> But of course we can't do this experiment because we'll be sued.
>
>
> If you could escape the layers of lawyers trying to stop you, this sounds
> like some form of civil disobedience might be applicable. If a publisher
> sued over this, they would have to stand up in court and argue that
> protecting their profits justifies restricting access to this information.
> Of course, that's not to say that they'd lose, but it would raise the
> profile of the issue. I imagine it's a financial risk that no institution
> would take on, though.
>
> Thomas
>
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