From: "Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF)" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:33:09 +0000

Hi Chris,

Thanks for this.  I'm not sure if everyone on liblicense-l has seen
our statement in Elsevier Connect:

http://www.elsevier.com/connect/a-comment-on-takedown-notices

but it addresses many of the points you make.  It outlines many of the
ways that authors are able to share articles, and it invites any
authors affected by a takedown notice who would like to self-archive
and need help in doing so to please contact us at
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With kind wishes,

Alicia

Dr Alicia Wise
Director of Access and Policy
Elsevier I The Boulevard I Langford Lane I Kidlington I Oxford I OX5 1GB
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From: "Armbruster, Chris" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:28:54 +0000

It is amazing that Elsevier continues its series of PR gaffes that
alienate authors. This is interesting particularly now that Mendeley
has been acquired.

What Elsevier should have done: Offer all Elsevier authors on
academia.edu to swap the publisher pdf for the author's manuscript. An
easy solution.

Moreover, the deposit and availability of authors' manuscripts is
known to increase demand for the version of record.

If I were Elsevier's CEO I would instruct my team to come up with more
interesting ways of supporting authors' communication efforts -
including support for archiving, for example by returning the author's
manuscript for archiving with a DOI link to the VoR. And if I were an
Elsevier shareholder, I should get very worried if the CEO does not
have a strategy beyond take down notices for dealing with openness on
the scholarly web.

Chris