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Elsevier Launches New Open Access Journal In Biomedicine: Journal Of Clinical And Translational Endocrinology

Press Release | Elsevier | September 12, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of a new open access research publication - Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology (JCTE). Read More »

Elsevier launches new open access journal on General Respiratory Medicine

Press Release | Phys.Org | July 19, 2012

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, a new online open access journal on general respiratory medicine that is dedicated to publishing case reports. Respiratory Medicine Case Reports has been created to publish case reports previously submitted to its sister journal Respiratory Medicine. Read More »

Elsevier Launches open access journal - NeuroImage: Clinical

Press Release | Elsevier | September 26, 2012

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of NeuroImage: Clinical, a new open access journal, and sister journal to NeuroImage. Read More »

Elsevier Launches Open Access Journal That Will Publish Sound Research Across All Disciplines

Press Release | Elsevier | January 8, 2015

High-tech publishing platform to be developed in cooperation with researchers, offering a new publishing option tailored to their needs...

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Elsevier Launches Open Access Journal: GeoResJ

Press Release | Elsevier | June 19, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of a new open access journal, GeoResJ. Read More »

Elsevier Still Charging For Open Access Copies, Two Years After It Was Told Of The Problem

Glyn Moody | Techdirt | March 21, 2014

For some reason, Elsevier seems to take delight in being hated by the academic world. Its support for the awful Research Works Act back in 2012 led to a massive boycott of the company by researchers. More recently, it has cracked down on academics posting PDFs of their own research. Now Peter Murray-Rust, one of the leading campaigners for open access, has caught Elsevier at it again. [...] Read More »

Elsevier to Flip Seven Subscription Journals to Open Access in 2014

Press Release | EIN | December 17, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that it will flip seven established subscription journals to a gold open access model starting from 1st January 2014. Read More »

Elsevier: Bumps On Road To Open Access

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | March 27, 2014

An academic is asking researchers and librarians to send him more examples of cases where open access article fees have been paid to the publisher Elsevier but the article in question remains behind a paywall.  The call has been made by Peter Murray-Rust, reader in molecular informatics at the University of Cambridge, after Elsevier admitted it had charged some people to reuse articles published with open licences.

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Elsevier’s Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta (BBA) Journal Series Adds Open Access Journal: BBA Clinical To Its Portfolio

Press Release | Elsevier | November 13, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of BBA Clinical, the first full open access journal within the Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) journalseries. BBA Clinical will focus on translating molecular insights into clinical research. Read More »

Episciences Project To Create arXiv Open Access Journals

Fabian Scherschel and Stefan Krempl | The H (h-online) | January 22, 2013

A group of mathematicians is launching a series of free-of-charge open access journals containing articles from Cornell University's arXiv server, thereby posing increasing competition for academic publishers. Read More »

Exporting From Mendeley?

Mark Sample | The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 15, 2013

As has been widely reported, the reference manager Mendeley was recently purchased for roughly $69 million by Elsevier, the Dutch publishing behemoth. Though we often suggest Zotero as a way to organize and cite research material, we have favorably recommended Mendeley as well... Read More »

Fighting Ebola with Open Source Collaboration

The enormity and severity of the West African Ebola epidemic that began in 2014 is hard to fathom. Over 10,000 people died with hundreds of thousands deeply affected by loss. In treating any medical condition, information is needed to provide adequate care, but when it’s an epidemic so severe, so dangerous and so fast-moving, it’s required more than ever. Ebola creates enormous barriers for patient care. It’s communicability means those who directly treat patients within the “Red Zone” must take extreme precautions. The lack of knowledge about who is infected and what constitutes effective treatment — not to mention the swift and severe toll it takes on the human body — makes caring for those affected extremely difficult...

Four Ways Open Access Enhances Academic Freedom

Curt Rice | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | April 30, 2013

Are politicians stealing our academic freedom? Is their fetish with open access publishing leading to a “pay to say” system for the rich? Will the trendy goal of making publicly financed research freely available skew the world of scholarship even more in the direction of the natural sciences? I don’t think so. But it took me a while to get there. Read More »

Free Access to British Scientific Research within Two Years

Ian Sample | The Guardian | July 15, 2012

The government is to unveil controversial plans to make publicly funded scientific research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014, in the most radical shakeup of academic publishing since the invention of the internet. Read More »

Gates Foundation Announces World’s Strongest Policy On Open Access Research

Richard Van Noorden | Nature.com | November 21, 2014

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the world’s strongest policy in support of open research and open data. If strictly enforced, it would prevent Gates-funded researchers from publishing in well-known journals such as Nature and Science...

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