[Irtalk] France Prefers to Pay (twice) for Papers by Its Researchers | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

[Hilton Gibson]

France may not have any money left for its universities but it does have
money for academic publishers.

*While university presidents learn that their funding is to be reduced by
EUR 400 million, the Ministry of Research has decided, under great secrecy,
to pay EUR 172 million to the world leader in scientific publishing
Elsevier *.

In an exclusive piece published by the French news outlet Rue89 (Le Monde
press group), Open Knowledge France members and open science evangelists
Pierre-Carl Langlais and Rayna Stamboliyska released the agreement between
the French Ministry and Elsevier. The post originally appeared here, in
French.

http://blog.okfn.org/2014/11/11/france-prefers-to-pay-twice-for-papers-by-its-researchers/
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