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Just a note that we have asked the European Commission to investigate Elsevier for abuse of a dominant market position: https://zenodo.org/record/1472045 https:
by Protohedgehog 8y ago
Just a note that we have asked the European Commission to investigate Elsevier for abuse of a dominant market position: https://zenodo.org/record/1472045 https://zenodo.org/record/1472045, and also now Education International (32 million members, 400 member organisations) are taking the fight to them through academic unions. https://bit.ly/2PPjwRK https://bit.ly/2PPjwRK
- MrGunn 8y agoI wish people would work on the systemic issues of access, rather than acting like Elsevier is somehow uniquely responsible. If Elsevier disappeared overnight, there would still be the other 84% of the market. Efforts like the above just lead to the open access movement getting co-opted by anti-capitalists, which hurts progress.
- dmitriz 8y agoOverview of distribution of costs by 5 main publishers -- Elsevier share is larger than all other 4 large publishers combined: https://oa2020.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/B14-12-Lidiia-Borell-Damian.pdf https://oa2020.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/B14-12-Lidiia-Bor...