Reed Elsevier Gives in on Free Research
Saeed Shah,
The Independent,
Jun 07, 2004
Fallout continues from Elsevier's agreement to allow authors to publish their articles own on their own web sites (how odd that sounds!) including this article describing it as "a major concession to the 'open access' lobby." Not that there is such a thing as "the open access lobby" per se. In another item Jeremy Warner (scroll down in article) writes that "it's a concession which plainly weakens the business model to some degree." Meanwhile, rival publishers are cited in a Guardian article as describing the move "as a cynical piece of public relations" and only a "token effort" to open access.
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