A window of opportunity for Elsevier

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

“The Elsevier boycott at The Cost Of Knowledge is the most visible sign of the recent uprising against exploitative publishing practices, but it’s far from the only one.  Anyone who’s been keeping an eye on the developing shift in attitudes will hardly have been able to miss: [1] the increasingly voluminous coverage of these issues in the general press, [2] the avalanche of blog posts, [3] the way publisher-friendly blogs like The Scholarly Kitchen are being flooded with comments from outraged researchers, or [4] the emergence of satirical accounts like @FakeElsevier and @FakePLoS on Twitter... What we’re seeing is a spontaneous response — catalysed by the Research Works Act, yes, but not caused by it.  The roots run much deeper...  And there are encouraging moments when it seems that the publishers are truly starting to Get It.  Elsevier’s most recent formal response to the boycott says: ‘We pay close attention to the voices of the research community we serve, including those who have responded to an online petition that is putting forward some serious negative judgments about Elsevier...’ there is a real window of opportunity here for Elsevier to radically reposition themselves... Elsevier should repudiate the RWA and throw themselves behind the Federal Research Public Access Act...”

Link:

http://svpow.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/a-window-of-opportunity-for-elsevier/

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.comment oa.mandates oa.usa oa.frpaa oa.legislation oa.negative oa.rwa oa.nih oa.advocacy oa.signatures oa.petitions oa.boycotts oa.elsevier oa.copyright oa.policies

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 15:04

Date published:

02/16/2012, 12:41