<div dir="ltr">Elsevier have actually done a really good job of infiltrating institutional repositories too:<div><a href="http://rossmounce.co.uk/2013/01/25/elseviers-growing-monopoly-of-ip-in-academia/">http://rossmounce.co.uk/2013/01/25/elseviers-growing-monopoly-of-ip-in-academia/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>They bought Atira back in 2012 which created PURE which is the software that many of world's institutional repositories run on.</div><div>I presume it reports back all information to Elsevier so they can further monetise academic IP.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Ross</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 May 2016 at 21:22, Joachim SCHOPFEL <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joachim.schopfel@univ-lille3.fr" target="_blank">joachim.schopfel@univ-lille3.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Uh - "the distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide is not for sale"? Not so sure - the green institutional repositories can be replaced by other solutions, can't they ? Better solutions, more functionalities, more added value, more efficient, better connected to databases and gold/hybrid journals etc. </div><div><br></div><div>----- Mail d'origine -----<br>De: Stevan Harnad <<a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com" target="_blank">amsciforum@gmail.com</a>><br>À: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal@eprints.org</a>><br>Envoyé: Tue, 17 May 2016 17:03:18 +0200 (CEST)<br>Objet: Re: [GOAL] SSRN Sellout to Elsevier<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Shame on SSRN.<div><br></div><div>Of course we know exactly why Elsevier acquired SSRN (and Mendeley):</div><div><br></div><div>It's to retain their stranglehold over a domain (peer-reviewed scholarly/scientific research publishing) in which they are no longer needed, and in which they would not even have been able to gain as much as a foothold if it had been born digital, instead of being inherited as a legacy from an obsolete Gutenberg era.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its concentrated expenses are always vulnerabe to faux-benign take-overs) but what's sure is that the distributed network of Green institutional repositories worldwide is not for sale, and that is their strength...</div><div><br></div><div>Stevan Harnad</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Bo-Christer Björk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bo-Christer.bjork@hanken.fi" target="_blank">bo-Christer.bjork@hanken.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><p>This is an interesting news item which should interest the<br> readers of this list. Let's hope arXiv is not for sale.</p><p>Bo-Christer Björk<br></p><div><br><div><br></div><br> -------- Forwarded Message --------<br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap valign="BASELINE">Subject:<br></th><td>Message from Mike Jensen, SSRN Chairman</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap valign="BASELINE">Date:</th><td>Tue, 17 May 2016 07:40:29 -0400 (EDT)</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap valign="BASELINE">From:</th><td>Michael C. Jensen <a href="mailto:admin@ssrn.com" target="_blank"><admin@ssrn.com></a></td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap valign="BASELINE">Reply-To:<br></th><td><a href="mailto:support@ssrn.com" target="_blank">support@ssrn.com</a></td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap valign="BASELINE">To:</th><td><a href="mailto:bo-christer.bjork@hanken.fi" target="_blank">bo-christer.bjork@hanken.fi</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br><div><br></div><img src="http://www.mailscanner.tv/1x1spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Web Bug from http://hq.ssrn.com/GroupProcesses/TrackEmailOpening.cfm?partid=2338421&corid=4024&runid=15740"><table background="http://static.ssrn.com/images/Header/header-bkg.png" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr valign="middle"><td valign="middle"><a href="http://hq.ssrn.com/GroupProcesses/RedirectClick.cfm?partid=2338421&corid=4024&runid=15740&url=http://www.ssrn.com" title="Go to SSRN Site" target="_blank"><img src="http://papers.ssrn.com/Organizations/images/ihp_ssrnlogo.png" border="0"></a></td><td valign="middle" width="100%"><img src="http://static.ssrn.com/Images/Header/socialnew.gif"></td></tr></tbody></table><br><div><br></div>Dear SSRN Authors,<br><div><br></div><br> SSRN announced today that it has changed ownership. SSRN is<br> joining <a href="https://www.mendeley.com/?signout" target="_blank">Mendeley</a> and <a href="https://www.elsevier.com" target="_blank">Elsevier</a><br> to coordinate our development and delivery of new products and<br> services, and we look forward to our new access to data, products,<br> and additional resources that this change facilitates. (See Gregg<br> Gordon’s <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/connect/ssrn-the-leading-social-science-and-humanities-repository-and-online-community-joins-elsevier" target="_blank">Elsevier<br> Connect</a> post)<br><div><br></div><br> Like SSRN, Mendeley and Elsevier are focused on creating tools<br> that enhance researcher workflow and productivity. SSRN has been<br> at the forefront of on-line sharing of working papers. We are<br> committed to continue our innovation and this change will enable<br> that to happen more quickly. SSRN will benefit from access to the<br> vast new data and resources available, including Mendeley’s<br> reference management and personal library management tools, their<br> new researcher profile capabilities, and social networking<br> features. Importantly, we will also have new access for SSRN<br> members to authoritative performance measurement tools such as<br> those powered by <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus" target="_blank">Scopus</a> and<br> <a href="http://hq.ssrn.com/GroupProcesses/RedirectClick.cfm?partid=2338421&corid=4024&runid=15740&url=http://www.newsflo.net" target="_blank">Newsflo</a><br> (a global media tracking tool). In addition, SSRN, Mendeley and<br> Elsevier together can cooperatively build bridges to close the<br> divide between the previously separate worlds and workflows of<br> working papers and published papers.<br><div><br></div><br> We realize that this change may create some concerns about the<br> intentions of a legacy publisher acquiring an open-access working<br> paper repository. I shared this concern. But after much discussion<br> about this matter and others in determining if Mendeley and<br> Elsevier would be a good home for SSRN, I am convinced that they<br> would be good stewards of our mission. And our copyright policies<br> are not in conflict -- our policy has always been to host only<br> papers that do not infringe on copyrights. I expect we will have<br> some conflicts as we align our interests, but I believe those will<br> be surmountable.<br><div><br></div><br> Until recently I was convinced that the SSRN community was best<br> served being a stand-alone entity. But in evaluating our future in<br> the evolving landscape, I came to believe that SSRN would benefit<br> from being more interconnected and with the resources available<br> from a larger organization. For example, there is scale in systems<br> administration and security, and SSRN can provide more value to<br> users with access to more data and resources.<br><div><br></div><br> On a personal note, it has been an honor to be involved over the<br> past 25 years in the founding and growth of the SSRN website and<br> the incredible community of authors, researchers and institutions<br> that has made this all possible. I consider it one of my great<br> accomplishments in life. The community would not have been<br> successful without the commitment of so many of you who have<br> contributed in so many ways. I am proud of the community we have<br> created, and I invite you to continue your involvement and support<br> in this effort.<br><div><br></div><br> The staff at SSRN are all staying (including Gregg Gordon, CEO and<br> myself), the Rochester office is still in place, it will still be<br> free to upload and download papers, and we remain committed to<br> “Tomorrow’s Research Today”. I look forward to and am committed to<br> a successful transition and to another great 25 years for the SSRN<br> community that rivals the first.<br><div><br></div><br> Michael C. 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