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Dr Morrison’s arguments against the CC-BY licence are well known to readers of this list and I acknowledge her sincerely held, and consistent, views on this.
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<div class="">But I’m afraid that I find using the murder of students to further, however tangentially, that argument quite sickening.</div>
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<div class="">On 7 Aug 2019, at 23:01, Heather Morrison <<a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca" class="">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">SpringerOpen is currently publishing 13 journals sponsored by the Government of Egypt. This is an opportunity to discuss some issues of relevance to the goals and sustainability of open access, starting
with academic freedom. As described by Holmes and Aziz (2019) there are very serious problems with academic freedom in Egypt, ranging from tight government control over what is studied and published to extrajudicial killings of 21 students in the last few
years. The University of Liverpool considered, then rejected, a lucrative offer to set up a campus in Egypt due to concerns about reputational damage. This raises some interesting questions. Academic freedom is critical to any kind of meaningful open access.
Nothing could possibly be more in opposite to open access than a dead student whose research was destroyed because of what was studied. Why is SpringerOpen partnering with the Government of Egypt? Should academics boycott SpringerOpen because of this partnership?
What, if anything, can academics do to support academic freedom in a country like Egypt? Some believe that the Creative Commons license CC-BY (attribution only) is the best for open access (I don’t agree, but this is a separate topic). If your research could
get you killed, attribution might not be a good idea. Today, some of us might assume that these kinds of problems would never happen in our own countries; but times change, and it has happened that places that enjoyed freedom at one point in time came under
the control of a dictator.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Following is the list of titles which state on the SpringerOpen site that they are supported by the “Specialized Presidential Council for Education and Scientific Research (Government of Egypt), so
author-payable article-processing charges do not apply”.</div>
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<td width="420" class="">Ain Shams Journal of Anesthesiology</td>
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<td width="420" class="">Bulletin of the National Research Centre</td>
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<td width="420" class="">Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control</td>
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<td width="420" class="">Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences</td>
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<td width="420" class="">Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics</td>
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<td width="420" class="">Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery</td>
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<td width="420" class="">Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine</td>
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<td width="420" class="">Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette</td>
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<td width="420" class="">Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association</td>
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<td width="420" class="">Middle East Current Psychiatry</td>
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<td width="420" class="">The Cardiothoracic Surgeon</td>
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<td width="420" class="">The Egyptian Heart Journal</td>
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<td width="420" class="">The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery</td>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Holmes, A. & Aziz, A. (2019). Egypt’s lost academic freedom.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">Carnegie Endowment for International Peace</em>. Retrieved August 9, 2019 from<a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/78210" id="LPlnk955283" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/78210</a></div>
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