“But Elsevier bought Mendeley and SSRN, but they’re OK, aren’t they?”
This tired old argument came up again on Twitter this evening, in light of Elsevier’s me-too announcement of a preprint archive:
Brian Nosek: Elsevier enters the biology #preprints space: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/ssrn/biorn
Me: KILL IT WITH FIRE
Brian Lucey: I’ve used SSRN from its inception. Never ever felt it as anything but useful. That’s not changed with Elsevier.
And elsewhere in the same thread:
Me: We want preprints to be supported by community-owned initiatives that will not try to take total control.
William Gunn: Well, you said the same stuff about Mendeley and it wasn’t true then, either, so…
So what’s the problem? Mendeley and SSRN are still around, right
Yes, they are. But they continue to exist only by the grace of Elsevier. At any moment, that could change. And here’s why.
Source: https://svpow.com/2017/05/10/but-elsevier-bought-mendeley-and-ssrn-but-theyre-ok-arent-they/
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