[A2k] "Brussels delivers blow to Reed Elsevier" - Free up public-funded Research

[Michelle Childs]

Thanks to Teresa Hackett for this.
Michelle.


Here are two articles from the UK Guardian newspaper on the recent
European Commission report on the scientific publishing industry.

Teresa
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Brussels delivers blow to Reed Elsevier
=B7 Pricing of journal papers 'impedes science progress'
=B7 Internet access proposal puts lucrative trade at risk

Richard Wray
Wednesday April 19, 2006
The Guardian

Scientific research funded by the European taxpayer should be freely
available to everyone over the internet, according to a European
commission report - a blow to the lucrative scientific publishing
operations of media groups such as Reed Elsevier and Germany's Springer.
The report, produced by economists from Toulouse University and the Free
University of Brussels for the (...)

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1756426,00.html


Publishers watch in fear as a new world comes into view
Dan Milmo, media business editor
Wednesday April 19, 2006
The Guardian

The move by the European commission to free up access to scientific
research is the latest challenge posed by the internet to the way Reed
Elsevier does business. The Anglo-Dutch publisher of the Lancet and
Variety magazine is one of the most internet-savvy media groups, but
while it has harnessed the web to reduce its costs, it is also
threatening the group's lucrative core (...)

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1756428,00.html
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