[DIYbio] Re: [tt] As Journal Boycott Grows, Elsevier Defends Its Practices

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com> wrote:
That is why her company offers a variety of packages and pricing schemes to
libraries, and negotiates discounts based on institution size, type, and

That's a common business trick-- even Oracle does it. On a $12M product, maybe you'll get a $2M discount. That doesn't excuse the other $10M for hosting files on a server..
 
"And we invest a lot in infrastructure, the tags and metadata attached to
each article that makes it discoverable by other researchers through search
engines, and that links papers together through citations and subject matter.
All of that has changed the way research is done today and makes it more
efficient. That's the added value that we bring."

Ah, so it's tagging.... right... got it. *ahem*

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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