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Sorry if my life's circumstances led me to become a greedy devil instead of a tenured saint.</div>
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That said, I don't think it's right to assume that we are working out of self-interest to build the Coronavirus Research Hub - as early as January individuals at Elsevier and people here in my team sought to do our bit to make information discoverable. These
people are like me, we live outside a Manichean world and as we decided to do our part with the tools at our disposal even if that didn't solve all the issues in the world we live in. There are people in these organizations and insulting us at the personal
level doesn't help creating the sense of community we all need to fight this bug. There is time for theory, other for actions.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> goal-bounces@eprints.org <goal-bounces@eprints.org> on behalf of Jean-Claude Guédon <jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca><br>
<b>Sent:</b> March 31, 2020 11:17 AM<br>
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<div>I also strongly agree with Peter. As for Éric Archambault, it is simply a pity to see greed trump principles.<br>
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One last note: OA will succeed, despite what Stevan says. Let us shape OA the right way, and certainly not in the way supported by Elsevier: in their view, OA is a "charitable" gesture that is applied only in extreme cases. The reality is that the Great Conversation
of science constantly needs it.<br>
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The right way to go is OA free for authors and for readers, which means that it must be subsidized. But that is all right because scientific research is subsidized and scientific communication is an integral part of scientific research (and it costs only 1%
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">Le 31/03/2020 à 08:28, Stevan Harnad a écrit :<br>
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<div class="">This is a shameful time for token measures. <br>
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<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>
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<div class="">OA used to be for the sake of scientific and scholarly research -- an abstraction, and it did not succeed. </div>
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<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="">
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<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,
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Do not tell us what we want. let us choose freely.<br class="">
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