Re: Persee in danger. Please support it.

[Joseph Esposito <espositoj@gmail.com>]

Jean-Claude,

Can you shed some light on why the support from the University of
Lyon is being removed from this project?

Joe Esposito

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:20 PM,  <jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> For the last eight years or so, a group of dedicated French 
> academics have been supporting a French imitation of JSTOR, 
> whose advantage over its older and bigger US model is that it 
> is in Open Access. (http://www.persee.fr).
>
> A petition is being circulated right now to try stopping the 
> University of Lyon-2 from killing this project.
>
> The answer provided by the president of the University is 
> worthy of Orwell's Newspeak...
>
> The petition can be signed at 
> http://lapetition.be/en-ligne/petition-9491.html . Please sign 
> it.
>
> Unhappily, they have not provided an English translation for 
> the petition, but the point is obvious, and filling the fields 
> is not difficult, even for someone who does not read French.
>
> If anyone meets with difficulties, please contact me.
>
> They deserve the strongest and widest support from all.
>
> Jean-Claude Guedon