[GOAL] Elsevier as an open access publisher

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Heather Morrison <
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca> wrote:

> Elsevier is now one of the world’s largest open access publishers as
> measured by the number of fully OA journals published. What are the
> implications? I’d love to hear your thoughts, on list or on the SKC
> blogpost (see link below).
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> A practice termed author nominal copyright is observed, where copyright is
> in the name of the author although the author contract is essentially a
> copyright transfer.
>

Thank you very much Heather for highlighting this appalling practice. It
deserves the widest possible publicity and condemnation. For me it
oversteps the boundaries of ethical practice.

Unfortunately I doubt very much whether it was discussed in the recent Jisc
"negotiations" with Elsevier and so is probably part of the model where
Elsevier is supporting "open science" through "helping authors".

This is an area where the Universities and their libraries should be
proactive. Relying on a few brave activists outside the system is a recipe
for publishers to continually change their terms in their favour.


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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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