[GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier

[Thomas Krichel]

  Isidro F. Aguillo writes

> Ugly interfaces, no profiles, useless metrics, ...

  Right! 

  Stevan Harnad writes

> All obvious stuff. Just a matter of doing it.

  But it won't get done because institutional repositories are
  underfunded, since the lion's share of expenditure goes
  to subscriptions.
  
> Ceding to the siren call of predators

  Libraries seem to continue to cede to the calls of a self-appointed
  arch-evangelist who insists that subscriptions must be paid for
  until 100% of OA is achieved.

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  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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