Protocole d’accord Elsevier : vers le maintien de la rente et la confirmation d’un contrôle hégémonique des données de la recherche | SavoirsCom1

[From Google's English] "January 31, 2014, the Couperin consortium in charge of negotiations with Elsevier , the Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education and the publisher have reached a Memorandum of Understanding on the subscription bouquet periodic '  Freedom Collection  'in national license. The draft agreement, which covers five years (from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2018), is a step forward in terms of institutional coverage: as stated in the statement of Couperin consortium , 'national license covers all establishments higher education and research, many public hospitals and agencies, as well as the National Library of France. The scope of facilities and served pass 147 to 642 schools. ' Other changes are in the direction of greater clarity and greater consistency of pricing model, and calculate the amount which must pay each institution is no longer indexed to the amount paid for paper journals to which he subscribed before the emergence of online journals ... Points of convergence with the Couperin consortium are possible. Nevertheless, to conclude collective SavoirsCom1 regrets that the MoU has the effect of reinforcing the dominance of Elsevier in the French scientific landscape, not only financially but also at the strategic level through licenses that allow the publisher to keep the upper hand in the dissemination and reuse of a considerable part of the research data."