[governance] FW: [Air-L] Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu

[michael gurstein]

Interesting discussion on another list with reference to the recurrent value
and significance of TLD's and their "proper" allocation.

(Elsevier the academic mega-publisher has done a take down on academic
papers they have published being made available (for free) on the commercial
(but .edu) site, http://www.Academia.edu ...

M

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Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 11:25 AM
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu

"I think they get a lot more slack because they are able to use a .edu
extension than they would if they were Academia.com."

Agreed. It's one of those accidents of Internet history that they got that
TLD, and it's paid dividends.

Open access is one thing when it's controlled by individual researchers or
done in collaboration with publishers. It's another when it's the foundation
of a site that's vacuuming a lot of free labor and illbegotten materials.
Not that I have a lot of sympathy for Elsevier, either.




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