[Rdap] FW: WARNING: Elsevier Reaxys API License Violates Academic Freedom

[Daureen Nesdill]

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From: "Michael A. Keller" <makeller at stanford.edu<mailto:makeller at stanford.edu>>
Subject: WARNING: Elsevier Reaxys API License Violates Academic Freedom
Date: April 4, 2018 at 4:38:45 PM PDT

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Elsevier's November 2017 contract proposal for its Reaxys chemical reactions API service contained requirements that the Stanford Libraries find to be antithetical to standards of academic freedom, and not in keeping with the university's policies.  Given these requirements (detailed in the attached warning) and Elsevier's unwillingness to negotiate these points, the Libraries have rejected this contract.  We predict that Elsevier will market this service to individual principal investigators and their labs.  No P.I. should sign any contract offered by Elsevier, particularly this one.

Please read and heed the attached WARNING.  Sources for further information are provided in the attached WARNING.

I request that Deans and Department Chairs receiving this WARNING re-distribute it to their faculty, P.I.s, and appropriate labs and centers.  Thank you.

Thank you,

 Mike

Michael A. Keller
  University Librarian
  Publisher Stanford University Press
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