Collaboration without Elsevier is the key to open access and open science | Green Tea and Velociraptors

flavoursofopenscience's bookmarks 2019-08-22

Summary:

This morning, Times Higher Education published a strange and awkward piece from a representative of Elsevier. If you have a subscription you can view it online here. Unsurprisingly for Elsevier though, it contained a number of misleading statements. As such, I left a comment on the article challenging many elements of this, which you can also view here. Just as a note, it should not be left to individuals like me to combat this sort of behaviour. It is tiring and time consuming to constantly be a watchdog in this space, and I call upon others to speak up and use their expertise to challenge the spread of misinformation from Elsevier and others.

For those without access through the loginwall though, here is my comment re-posted in full [...]

Link:

http://fossilsandshit.com/collaboration-without-elsevier-is-the-key-to-open-access-and-open-science/

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oa.new oa.commentary oa.opinion oa.elsevier oa.collaboration oa.cancellations oa.gold oa.business_models oa.offsets oa.u.california oa.germany oa.sweden oa.journals

Date tagged:

08/22/2019, 09:21

Date published:

08/22/2019, 05:21