Reed Elsevier is hitting back against the open access publishing model. In this item, company CEO Sir Crispin Davis notes that publisher content continues to hold sway. “After five years, the author-pays model has gained a 1 per cent market share. Libraries do push back on costs, but we are securing a 96 per cent renewal rate, and that tells the real story.†In another item he is quoted as calling "'daft' the idea that British universities should have to make publicly funded research freely available to all." In a third article, the CEO finds himself defending Reed Elsevier's record profits. The CEO, who has apparently never heard of Google, argues, "Today, through his laptop, a scientist can access 3.5 miles of research articles and do in an hour what would have taken a week before. That would not have happened if we hadn't been able to invest and you didn't have a profitable industry. None of it would have happened under author pays." All items via Open Access News.
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