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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I agree with Peter. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eric has gone over to the devil. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a shameful time for token measures. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Covid-19 is a litmus test for disclosing who are going all out for the public good and who are in it for themselves. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">OA used to be for the sake of scientific and scholarly research -- an abstraction, and it did not succeed. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here it’s about survival.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Stevan Harnad</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #000000" class="">Editor,</span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0b37c5" class=""> <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fanimalstudiesrepository.org%2Fanimsent%2F&data=01%7C01%7C%7Cd547a0da71564c7fb48108d7d56f0886%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=u4SeHgBD0Upyemmp4Nf0%2Be9a3nOcKNimsGZ3BY2YhGA%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/" shash="sdLxBuJrtnbTfUDhvP+yXxtO1wmRAYEkRMZZRJLmsJAlq4A0N8WnhxRaqDr8cn/lMQ869vtlXtSQcEKvw2cX3auzcf7NBwYcj1tqHxoxy1WQN0VhtzibX1bkD5JhpDLDvOIElEokA8lVQnnnMnAnzWM3lyd+J3HYm5NaGW46hPs=" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class="">Animal Sentience</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #000000" class="">Professor of Psychology, <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcrcsc.uqam.ca%2F&data=01%7C01%7C%7Cd547a0da71564c7fb48108d7d56f0886%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=cXNp0TpmsXPsLTCN5AYm8hfmpZmgij7X2Up3%2FNnGjvo%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="http://crcsc.uqam.ca/" shash="hJTDhK+sdcAQyapyJX0Gs5cuBQ2p5B8XmgxuJL9sY0LPFZl+AB8YTl4emGtPB2n9a8X8Ktz/ONKY9VmcHS3kOR3vabA555mCfZGfmi3Z0bncfFvsWM0em2C48KVV7p0ef2SUyQ8UOG7Q9hdqYNdQqC48xo1kxZ0YGfft4SnUdpU=" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class="">Université du Québec à Montréal</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science, <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcgill.ca%2Fpsychology%2Fabout%2Ffaculty-0%2Faffiliate-and-adjunct&data=01%7C01%7C%7Cd547a0da71564c7fb48108d7d56f0886%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=FirEAYdQS9zIJvZwZOu3TyqInl7b71VCYxIDnoAQ6O4%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/about/faculty-0/affiliate-and-adjunct" shash="v52aW70QsVu+n/ZML5VjKyK/4MlzKLeMDdnYJvDwqZRutIqdfAdhYx7xTs6RhkgzCiX7QTMNDayqDKQ6GGwFxGIDIzwsXq765ySPsnUUCPsoIfSMpJ9j7pg5GxCZ/yZ0E76yvvk1WKUBYD9kNThJoxEDGqAsBNoLXXu+WruIWss=" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(11, 55, 197);" class="">McGill University</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Science, <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/harnad" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class="">University of Southampton</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 30, 2020, at 6:14 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <<a href="mailto:pm286@cam.ac.uk" class="">pm286@cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><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" class="">eric.archambault@science-metrix.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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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<div class="gmail-m_7811265726971503700WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><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" class=""><div class="gmail-m_7811265726971503700WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Peter,</p><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.</p><p class="MsoNormal">At 1science, we created the Coronavirus Research Hub:<br class=""></p></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class="">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 class=""><br class="">The Royal Society has done this. Elsevier can afford to do it. <br class=""></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" class=""><div class="gmail-m_7811265726971503700WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><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" class=""><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.</p></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class="">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 class=""><br class="">Do not tell us what we want. let us choose freely.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peter Murray-Rust<br class=""><br class="">Volunteer fighting for free scientific knowledge in a world crisis.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">"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 class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peter Murray-Rust<br class="">Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics<br class="">Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry<br class="">University of Cambridge<br class="">CB2 1EW, UK<br class="">+44-1223-763069</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>