[GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

[Peter Murray-Rust]

Typical example,
Skimmed through Cell to the first CC - NC - ND article:

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.05.055
Copyright
© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.
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Go to RightsLInk
Enter as academic author writing a book with CUP and requiring 5 figures.
CCC requires me to pay 181 USD to Elsevier / CCC
Try it yourself

It's irrelevant in practice who s the copyright owner , the total
transparency is that Elsevier can extort rent for all CC -NC they pubish
even if the author has copyright.
Transparency = daylight robbery

-- 
"I always retain copyright in my papers, and nothing in any contract I sign
with any publisher will override that fact. You should do the same".

Peter Murray-Rust
Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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