<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Jean-Claude Guédon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca" target="_blank">jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" background="cid:1415207140.2741.3.camel@umontreal.ca" link="#148120" vlink="#1E3C22" lang="NL"><div>We should all get behind the Dutch universities and tell them to stand firm, and tell them that we are going to do all that is possible to help them. </div><div><br></div><div> And the French should have done the same. This would have generated a spirit<span></span><span></span> of resistance that would have quickly spread across Europe and beyond.</div><div><br></div><div>Jean-Claude Guédon</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>I agree,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I have already tweeted my support.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It's cheaper to fly from Amsterdam to London (75 GBP) and back than read two papers for 1 day from Elsevier. The Dutch could come and use our public libraries for free ... and use the money for science. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is not only costing money it's destroying chunks of science and other scholarship. And destroying careers.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I have the honour of being asked to give an invited talk at OpenCon (<a href="http://www.opencon2014.org/">http://www.opencon2014.org/</a>) (in Washington) where students and early career researchers are discussing Open Access. I'm embarrased with our generation's feeble attitude to Open Access and shall say so.The student generation is angry with our legacy, and rightly. Unless we take massive concerted action to fight - as the Dutch are starting to do, and in many other ways - we shall have let them down.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">P.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069</div>
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