[GOAL] [FORCE11] Reporting Elsevier to the EU competitions authority

[Nate Jacobs]

Any US folks with some policy / gov experience want to do this here? I can
help draft and edit the document, but don't know much about the bureaucracy
or where you would send something like this...

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:55 AM Jon Tennant <jon.tennant.2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> With apologies for cross-posting, as always.
>
> Hopefully many of you will find this interesting. Björn Brembs and myself
> have filed a formal complaint today regarding RELX and the wider
> scholarly publishing market to the EU competition authority
> <http://ec.europa.eu/competition/index_en.html>. It is available online
> <https://zenodo.org/record/1472045#.W9MpE5P7RPa> for anyone to see.
>
> This is distinct from the complaint made about Elsevier and the Open
> Science Monitor, and reflects decades of frustration in this system and an
> attempt to resolve many of the issues we all know so well.
>
> At the present, the content of this complaint can be re-used to suit
> others who might wish to file similar complaints in their countries, where
> possible.
>
> Wishing you all a good weekend,
>
> Jon
>
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