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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

Over at TechDirt, Glyn Moody writes how the hated science publisher, Elsevier, will help the EU Monitor Open Science [techdirt.com]. That includes Open Access, something which Elesevier has been fighting hard against for a long time.

Techdirt has written many stories about the publisher Elsevier. They have all been pretty negative: the company seems determined to represent the worst of academic publishing. It's no surprise, then, that many academics loathe the company. Against that background, news that the EU "Open science Monitor" will use Elsevier as a subcontractor is surprising, to say the least. The official notice of the contract has some details of what the project involves

Open Access [cornell.edu] (OA) is scholarly literature made available free of charge. It often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors. Progress has been made towards OA, but a ways further remains even though it has been worked towards for many decades over the objection of the established publishers who more often than not appear to operate as expensive bottlenecks which provide no added-value.

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