[Commons-Law] : Open Content Alliance
Via: "Ramanathan Muthaiah"
Heise online, in the English pages, http://www.heise.de/english,
reports about Max Planck Society (MPG) terminating licensing contract
with Springer publishing house.
Amongst other things, Heise reports that, " "Even at the very last
minute the Springer publishing house had not been prepared to lower
its inflated prices," MPG Vice President Kurt Mehlhorn said. "The MPG
therefore had had no other option but to terminate the contract," he
added. "
Full report is available at:
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97652
The same report also observes that, " . . . MPG is one of the
initiators of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in
the Sciences and the Humanities . . ."
On the same subject of this e-mail, The Net York Times dated
22-Oct,2007 has an article on page 1:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22library.html
Heise online, in the English pages, http://www.heise.de/english,
reports about Max Planck Society (MPG) terminating licensing contract
with Springer publishing house.
Amongst other things, Heise reports that, " "Even at the very last
minute the Springer publishing house had not been prepared to lower
its inflated prices," MPG Vice President Kurt Mehlhorn said. "The MPG
therefore had had no other option but to terminate the contract," he
added. "
Full report is available at:
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97652
The same report also observes that, " . . . MPG is one of the
initiators of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in
the Sciences and the Humanities . . ."
On the same subject of this e-mail, The Net York Times dated
22-Oct,2007 has an article on page 1:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22library.html
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