Congratulations to Rayna, Pierre-Carl Langlais, Jenny and Katelyn for making this widely known. In India every consortium signs such secret contracts although all the money they pay the publishers come from the taxpayers. In the US and UK activists have used Freedom of Information Act to bring out the contracts into the open. At least in two cases a major publisher objected to it but the courts turned down their unjust objections. There is a Right to Information provision in India and we must use it to get the details of the contracts consortia sign with publishing companies. Arun On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Marieke Guy wrote:

Likely to be of interest to the Open Access list too.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [open-science] Yesterday, we leaked the French agreement with Elsevier Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:49:38 +0100 From: Rayna To: open-science , "open-access@lists.okfn.org"

Hi everyone,

Just a short message to highlight a piece we wrote with Pierre-Carl Langlais (@Dorialexander). It was published in a prominent online publication yesterday, in French and was aimed to release the recently concluded agreement between the French Ministry of Research and Elsevier.Â

With precious help from Jenny and Katelyn, the piece is now available in English on the main OKF blog:Â http://blog.okfn.org/2014/11/11/france-prefers-to-pay-twice-for-papers-by-it...

Such secret contracts are what hinders any meaningful incentive to an Open Access policy. This is the first installment in a series of materials we will be running in the coming weeks, aiming to achieve greater transparency (and later on, to conquer the world ;) ).

Comments, insights, ideas, tweets, etc. greatly appreciated, Rayna

-- "Change l'ordre du monde plutôt que tes désirs."

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