Supporting Persée, a French JStor-like, but OA, under threat of being stopped.

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"For the last eight years or so, a group of dedicated French academics have been supporting a French imitation of JSTOR, whose advantage over its older and bigger US model is that it is in Open Access. (http://www.persee.fr). A petition is being circulated right now to try stopping the University of Lyon-2 from killing this project. The petition can be signed at http://lapetition.be/en-ligne/petition-9491.html. Please sign it. Unhappily, they have not provided an English translation for the petition, but the point is obvious, and filling the fields is not difficult, even for someone who does not read French...."

Link:

https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/5766.html

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Tags:

oa.new ru.ps oa.signatures oa.france oa.french oa.petitions

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 14:25

Date published:

03/09/2011, 11:00