Open Access Archivangelism: Elsevier's PURE: self-interest and exploitation

"'Alicia Wise (ELS-OXF) wrote in GOAL: Hi everyone,      Pure enables universities and researchers to comply with the HEFCE open access policy. For more information on Pure, please refer to https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/pure.      Elsevier sharing policies are also consistent with the HEFCE policy. Gold open access articles can of course be shared immediately. Subscription articles are made available via Green open access. In the UK we have lowered embargo periods for authors as part of the balanced package of moves toward OA brokered amongst stakeholders by the Finch Group. This is made perfectly clear on our website, and I invite list readers to read this text for themselves. Go to https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/agreements and select ‘United Kingdom’ from the pull-down list.' If the British research community, universities, and government heed the siren call of all the disinformation summed up by Elsevier above, what can one say but that we deserve everything that’s coming to us? Every single talking point above is the exact opposite of the truth, and of what is best for the research community, researchers and the British tax-paying public in the online era. And it takes only a little critical reflection to see exactly how and why. I will not repeat here, yet again, all the points to which I’ve tried — unsuccessfully — to alert the research community across the years. It should be enough to just ask ourselves: 'Why on earth is the journal publishing industry — which has made a fortune by appropriating our intellectual property during the years when the costs and constraints of print and its distribuiation left us no choice — now to be allowed not only to retain its stranglehold but to strengthen it in the online era that would have allowed us at last to free ourselves (and our property, and our actions) from its gratuitous and greedy grip?' We don’t need Elsevier (or any publisher) and its PURE Trojan Horse to handle the archiving, access-provision, accounting and assessment of our research output! We only need publishers to manage the peer review (which we also provide ourselves) ..."