Microsoft and Elsevier may become partners
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/01/microsoft-elsevier.html
OA=OSS, Elsevier=Microsoft
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2006/06/oaoss-elseviermicrosoft.html
This seems to break their promise. Maybe a reason to steer away from Elsevier
journals and do IEEE instead?
Related:
Elsevier duo say the future is open
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| Two senior publishers have departed Elsevier and joined rival Biomed
| Central, placing their bets on an open access future for scientific
| research.
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http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2171597/elsevier-duo-say-future-open
OUP wants me to pay for my own Open Access article
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| The journal wishes to charge me 48 USD to:
|
| * USE MY OWN ARTICLE
| * ON WHICH I HOLD COPYRIGHT
| * FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES (TEACHING)
|
| The journal is therefore
|
| * SELLING MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
| * WITHOUT MY PERMISSION
| * AGAINST THE TERMS OF THE LICENCE (NO COMMERCIAL USE)
|
| I am lost for words...
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http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=529
Academia's Open Access movement mirrors FOSS community
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| Free and open source software (FOSS) has roots in the ideals of academic
| freedom and the unimpeded exchange of information. In the last five years,
| the concepts have come full circle, with FOSS serving as a model for Open
| Access (OA), a movement within academia to promote unrestricted access to
| scholarly material for both researchers and the general public.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118139
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