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<div>Fully agree. Let's not employ newspeak. Elsevier is the single most important obstacle to achieving and getting support for open access. Period. .</div>
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<div>Jeroen Bosman</div>
<div>Utrecht University Library</div>
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<div>From: Ross Mounce <ross.mounce@gmail.com> </div>
<div>Date: 13/01/2017 22:29 (GMT+01:00) </div>
<div>To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal@eprints.org> </div>
<div>Subject: Re: [GOAL] Elsevier as an open access publisher </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 January 2017 at 16:57, Heather Morrison <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca" target="_blank">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Elsevier is now one of the world’s largest open access publishers as measured by the number of fully OA journals published. What are the implications?</blockquote>
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<div>There are precisely no implications.</div>
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<div>The number of journals is an utterly irrelevant measure, but I'm assuming you already knew this. </div>
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<div>Journals are just vessels for content. It is actual content that is important.</div>
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<div>Article volume is what counts in publishing (economically), and Elsevier are nowhere near the largest when it comes to immediate OA publishing. <br>
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<div>Most of Elsevier's fully OA journals are recently created and are low-volume. They can create and close (e.g. <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/new-negatives-in-plant-science/">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/new-negatives-in-plant-science/</a>
) journals at the click of button. </div>
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<div>Perhaps though this is part of Elsevier's strategy - at a very very superficial level (e.g. counting journal titles) it looks like they are deeply invested in open access publishing. I hope no politicians or librarians are fooled by this simple ruse.</div>
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<div>Sincerely,</div>
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<div>Ross</div>
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