COAR’s Next Generation Repositories initiative
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Elsevier Acquisition Highlights the Need for Community-based Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
Heather Joseph and Kathleen Shearer | SPARC | September 6, 2017
Like many others in the scholarly community, we were very disappointed to learn about the recent acquisition by Elsevier of bepress, the provider of the popular Digital Commons repository platform. The acquisition is especially troubling for the hundreds of institutions that use Digital Commons to support their open access repositories. These institutions now find their repository services owned and managed by Elsevier, a company well known for its obstruction of open access and repositories...
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