<div dir="ltr">Any US folks with some policy / gov experience want to do this here? I can help draft and edit the document, but don't know much about the bureaucracy or where you would send something like this...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:55 AM Jon Tennant <<a href="mailto:jon.tennant.2@gmail.com">jon.tennant.2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear list members,<div><br></div><div>With apologies for cross-posting, as always.<br></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Hopefully many of you will find this interesting. Björn Brembs and myself have filed a f<span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif">ormal complaint today regarding RELX and the wider scholarly publishing market to the</span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"> </span><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/competition/index_en.html" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(66,139,202);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">EU competition authority</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif">. It is <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/1472045#.W9MpE5P7RPa" target="_blank">available online</a> for anyone to see.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">This is distinct from the complaint made about Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor, and reflects decades of frustration in this system and an attempt to resolve many of the issues we all know so well.</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div>At the present, the content of this complaint can be re-used to suit others who might wish to file similar complaints in their countries, where possible.</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Wishing you all a good weekend,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Jon</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4040251619241899082gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><br></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><i> Nomadic Palaeontologist, Rogue Open Scientist; PhD, MEarthSci, MSc</i></span></div><ul><li>Founder of <a href="https://paleorxiv.org/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank"><b>paleorXiv</b></a><span style="font-size:12.8px">, a free digital publishing platform for Palaeontology</span><br></li><ul><li><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://paleorxiv.github.io/" target="_blank">Companion Website</a></span></li></ul><li>Founder of the <b style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://opensciencemooc.github.io/site/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Open Science MOOC</a></b></li><ul><li>Project development on <a href="https://github.com/OpenScienceMOOC" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li></ul><li>Freelance science communicator and consultant<br></li><ul><li>Author of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Excavate-Dinosaurs-Paper-Toy-Palaeontology/dp/178240144X" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Excavate! Dinosaurs</a> and World of Dinosaurs (coming 2018)</li></ul><li>Executive Editor of <a href="https://www.geoscience-communication.net/" target="_blank">Geoscience Communication</a></li><li>Editor for the <a href="http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/" target="_blank">PLOS Paleo Community</a></li></ul></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><a href="http://fossilsandshit.com/" target="_blank">Personal website</a> - Home of the Green Tea and Velociraptors blog.</b></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><b>ORCID:</b> <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7794-0218" target="_blank">0000-0001-7794-0218</a><br><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Twitter:</b> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Protohedgehog" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">@protohedgehog<br></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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