Divestment Watch, the now defunct blog maintained by an RBI employee about our divestment by Reed Elsevier refuses to go quietly into the night.
The latest blogger to mention its abrupt curtailment is Adrian Monck, professor of journalism at City University, and one of my favourite journalism bloggers. He explains exactly what sort of [image a blog like that that abruptly vanishing creates](http://adrianmonck.com/2008/06/the-case-of-the-disappearing-reed-elsevier-blog/).
Adam is a lecturer, trainer and writer. He's been a blogger for over 20 years, and a journalist for more than 30. He lectures on audience strategy and engagement at City, University of London.
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Robert Andrews highlights the political dangers to the traditional Reed Elsevier
[http://www.reedelsevier.com/] business model, by quoting a research note from
Berstein Research’s Claudio Aspesi
[http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/10/open-access-research-catastrophic-for-reed-elsevier/]
:
> We think the risk posed to the Elsevier business model is substantial. We
believe