<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 7:48 PM Éric Archambault <<a href="mailto:eric.archambault@science-metrix.com">eric.archambault@science-metrix.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Two months ago, that is, on January 27, we started work at Elsevier to make available as much as possible of the scholarly literature on coronavirus research easily discoverable and freely accessible.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At 1science, we created the Coronavirus Research Hub:<br>
<br></p></div></div></blockquote><div>Why does Elsevier not simply open all its content and let the scientific , medical and citizen community decide what they want? Elsevier can't guess what we want.<br><br>The Royal Society has done this. Elsevier can afford to do it. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_7811265726971503700WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_7811265726971503700WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">If we can help further, please let us know, we have been on it for two months and we continue to evaluate options to help the research community.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My colleague, a software developer, working for free on openVirus software, is spending most of his time working making masks in Cambridge Makespace to ship to Addenbrooke's hospital. When he goes to the literature to find literature on masks, their efficacy and use and construction he finds paywall after paywall after paywall after paywall .... Some are 1-page notes behind a 36 USD Elsevier paywall. <br><br>Do not tell us what we want. let us choose freely.<br><br></div><div>Peter Murray-Rust<br><br>Volunteer fighting for free scientific knowledge in a world crisias.</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>"I always retain copyright in my papers, and nothing in any contract I sign with any publisher will override that fact. You should do the same".<br></div><div><br></div><div>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069</div></div></div></div></div></div>