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<p>Dear John, Björn and all,</p>
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<p>thank you for lifting this off. An impressive and courageous job. <br>
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According to my knowledge, a similar draft proposal, that you might know of (or not), was presented yesterday at the EUA Council aiming for a joint complaint. I don't know the status of the case, but hopefully you will be backed up by a large organisation aiming
beyond RELX and the oligopolistic market (<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Taylor & Francis, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wiley-Blackwell, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Springer Nature, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sage)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
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In case they won't/can't agree on a way forward, I know Danish Universities will continue to make the case forward to Ms. Margrethe Vestager and her staff in collaboration with other Rector's Conferences backing up.<br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fingers X for success.</span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>Fra:</b> open-science <open-science-bounces@lists.okfn.org> på vegne af Jon Tennant <jon.tennant.2@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sendt:</b> 26. oktober 2018 16:55<br>
<b>Til:</b> scholcomm@lists.ala.org; open-science@lists.okfn.org; RADICALOPENACCESS@jiscmail.ac.uk; f11discussion@force11.org; opencon-discussion-list@googlegroups.com; goal@eprints.org; openscience@lists.uni-goettingen.de; LIS-BIBLIOMETRICS@jiscmail.ac.uk;
psci-com@jiscmail.ac.uk<br>
<b>Emne:</b> [open-science] Reporting Elsevier to the EU competitions authority</font>
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<div>With apologies for cross-posting, as always.<br>
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<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; color:rgb(66,139,202)">EU
competition authority</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51); font-family:Roboto,sans-serif">. It is
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<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>
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<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>
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<div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Wishing you all a good weekend,</span></div>
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