[Wikimedia-l] (semi-OT) Open access "catastrophic" for Elsevier

[David Gerard]

It's such a pity that Elsevier's attempt to legally block open access
requirements [1] means that they must be destroyed utterly with not
one stone left upon another and the ground salted. I'm crying real[2]
tears here.

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2012/09/21/how-do-you-recognize-a-catastrophe/
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/files/2012/09/Berstein-report-on-Elsevier.pdf

The world's smallest violin is playing the world's quietest tune, at
$39.50 a play for non-subscribers.


- d.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Works_Act
[2] may not be 100% true.