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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>It might be worth pointing out that Elsevier is also asking its own service provider Mendeley to take down PDFs, although the details are sketchy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>See here: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/TomReller/status/411173848596217856">https://twitter.com/TomReller/status/411173848596217856</a><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>And here: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/RickyPo/status/411215635968847872">https://twitter.com/RickyPo/status/411215635968847872</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>And here: </span><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/connect/a-comment-on-takedown-notices">http://www.elsevier.com/connect/a-comment-on-takedown-notices</a><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Richard Poynder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Subbiah Arunachalam<br><b>Sent:</b> 15 December 2013 05:42<br><b>To:</b> LibLicense-L Discussion Forum; Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); bytesforall_readers@yahoogroups.com; LIS-Forum; oadl<br><b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Fwd: Elsevier's Unforced Error<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>If, after all this, the scientists of the world do not unite now and revive the 'Boycott Elsevier' movement, we cannot blame the publisher hereafter. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>How can governments and funding bodies which support research remain silent spectators and let publishing companies hijack the copyright to the research results? <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Arun<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>LIBLICENSE</b> <<a href="mailto:liblicense@gmail.com">liblicense@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:43 AM<br>Subject: Elsevier's Unforced Error<br>To: <a href="mailto:LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu">LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu</a><br><br><br>From: "Hamaker, Charles" <<a href="mailto:cahamake@uncc.edu">cahamake@uncc.edu</a>><br>Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 16:11:37<br><br><a href="http://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-from-academia-edu/" target="_blank">http://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-from-academia-edu/</a><br><br>For those who are unhappy with decades of Elsevier's policies,<br>practices, pricing, and even their recent purchase of Mendeley, their<br>unforced error in issuing take-down notices is an amazing, mistaken<br>and ultimately self-destructive decision on Elsevier's part.<br><br>Anyone who has any disagreement with Elsevier on any issue: copyright,<br>OA policies, hybrid journals, OA pricing, pricing in general, control<br>of backfiles, text mining, any of a myriad of issues including, their<br>crazy if you mandate it you can't do it IR policy and their standard<br>refusal to permit re-printing "their" research, should publicize<br>this far and wide.<br><br>Elsevier, no matter what they say, has demonstrated beyond any<br>reasonable doubt in this action, their limited understanding of their<br>remit, their control of scholarly research, They are nobody's<br>friend's except their shareholders. They have demonstrated their DNA,<br>their belief in their right to control the content scholars and<br>researchers create and publish with Elsevier. They are wrong.<br><br>What copyright law says is irrelevant in this, what authors want to do<br>with their own research is paramount.<br><br>It might have been masked before under the guise of impact factors and<br> collegial editorial board meetings in locations worldwide and smart<br>as a whip editors, and outreach at conferences, and invitations to<br>"publish your research with us" and PR, and more or less "green" OA<br>policies, and excellent inhouse readings of directions in future<br>trends, and all the other trappings and expertise they have in<br>academic publishing which is at the top of its game. Those trapping<br>are insufficient.<br><br>Elsevier and its cynical relationship with authors and institutions,<br>has been demonstrated by Elsevier itself. No one could have done this<br>to them but themselves.<br><br>The tide of OA, of authors making sure people who need to see it, get<br>to read their research, OA in all its guises, is inexorable and if<br>handled correctly even by such behemoths as Elsevier, will lift all<br>boats in the publishing stream, despite the scaremongers and<br>naysayers in publishing, or the mistaken advice of some in libraries,<br>or even among OA advocates themselves. It's logic is persuasive, its<br>goals commensurate ultimately with what authors want for their own<br>research. To put up and enforce barriers to what scholars want to<br>distribute that they themselves produce is antediluvian.<br><br>Elsevier's unforced error may be more effective than any boycott.<br><br>Chuck Hamaker<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3658/6920 - Release Date: 12/14/13<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>