The "Research Works Act" is a distraction that works |
You only have to search for "Research Works Act" or look for the #rwa hashtag on Twitter or follow the increasing number of people signing on to the petitions against RWA. You will see that this piece of intended US legi...[more] |
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Posted on Friday 27 January 2012 - 18:09:56 |
Open Access needs better 'Government Relations' |
Apparently, the Open Access movement is falling behind and needs better 'Government Relations'. Today, everyone has their "Vice President for Government Relations" or some other office like that: Universities (e.g., ...[more] |
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Posted on Sunday 08 January 2012 - 19:48:40 |
Even now the RWA was worth it for Elsevier |
Everyone is shouting it from the rooftops already: Elsevier has dropped its support for the Research Works Act. As mentioned before, to me, this doesn't change my stance towards corporate publishers one bit. A...[more] |
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Posted on Monday 27 February 2012 - 17:25:42 |
A fistful of dollars: why corporate publishers have no place in scholarly communication |
With roughly four billion US$ in profit every year, the corporate scholarly publishing industry is a lucrative business. One of the largest of these publishers is Anglo-Dutch Elsevier, part of Reed Elsevier. According to...[more] |
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Posted on Tuesday 10 January 2012 - 13:07:36 |