[GOAL] Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu

[Richard Poynder]

List members can also refer to the following article in The Chronicle of
Higher Education, which includes comments from the founder and CEO of
Academia.edu Richard Price, and from Elsevier:

 

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/posting-your-latest-article-you-might
-have-to-take-it-down/48865

 

Elsevier has also posted a statement on the matter here:

 

http://www.elsevier.com/connect/a-comment-on-takedown-notices

 

 

 

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Peter Murray-Rust
Sent: 07 December 2013 05:04
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Cc: jisc-repositories; ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Elsevier Study Commissioned by UK BIS

 

List members may be aware that Elsevier sent out thousands of take-down
notices for Green OA yesterday. See
http://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-from-academia-edu
/ and much twitter discussion.

These manuscripts are Green. They are self archived by authors after
publication. 

But this is forbidden by Elsevier - the manuscripts can only be posted in an
Institutional Repository (and then, I assume, only if there is no mandate
requiring deposition).

This is lunacy and it's to the discredit of the academics that they play
this convoluted and sterile game created by the publishers. Publishers'
reason for insisting on IRs over Academia.edu is that readers actually use
Academia. 

The purpose of the BOAI declaration was to make scholarship available to
everyone. This farce makes scholarship available to almost no-one.

 

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