[GOAL] [open-science] Reporting Elsevier to the EU competitions authority

[Michael Svendsen]

Dear John, Björn and all,


thank you for lifting this off. An impressive and courageous job.

According to my knowledge, a similar draft proposal, that you might know of (or not), was presented yesterday at the EUA Council aiming for a joint complaint. I don't know the status of the case, but hopefully you will be backed up by a large organisation aiming beyond RELX and the oligopolistic market (Taylor & Francis, Wiley-Blackwell, Springer Nature, Sage)

In case they won't/can't agree on a way forward, I know Danish Universities will continue to make the case forward to Ms. Margrethe Vestager and her staff in collaboration with other Rector's Conferences backing up.

Fingers X for success.

Best, Michael


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Emne: [open-science] Reporting Elsevier to the EU competitions authority

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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