Contents
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The Dutch Consortia/Elsevier Contract: The Real Risks
This agreement raises significant issues both in terms of some of the novel problems it poses. We hope that institutions exercise caution before entering similar deals.
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Appendix: The Industry Response
Most of the leading publishers strengthened their digital and data analytics offerings in 2019, and have continued to do so into 2020.
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Emerging Concerns: A Shift from Research Publishing to Research Assessment
We're concerned by new initiatives with inherent conflicts of interest between assessing and evaluating research, on the one hand, and disseminating it, on the other.
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The Dutch Consortia/Elsevier Contract: The Real Risks
This agreement raises significant issues both in terms of some of the novel problems it poses. We hope that institutions exercise caution before entering similar deals.
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Leaked Dutch Contract with Elsevier Raises Significant Alarm Bells
Elsevier is discussing a contract to provide Dutch universities with access to its journals at no extra cost. Institutions and consortia should pause to consider and robustly debate all the ramifications of these decisions, before pursuing what may prove apparent and short-lived benefits.
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Research Companies: The Products
Compiling a map of all the products and services that the three leading research data analytics vendors (Clarivate, Digital Science, Elsevier) market outside libraries is inherently a best effort exercise.
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Research Companies: Elsevier
We see three major threats to Elsevier’s performance going forward.
