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Dramatic Growth of Open Access in 2012

Heather Morrison | The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics | December 31, 2012

2012 was another awesome year for open access!. This post highlights and celebrates just how much open access is available already. This post highlights and celebrates just how much open access is available already. The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) cross-searches over 40 million documents in over 2,400 repositories - nearly double the number in just 3 years, demonstrating yet again strong growth in open access archiving. Read More »

Dutch Universities Dig In For Long Fight Over Open Access

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | January 8, 2015

Dutch universities have vowed not to soften their groundbreaking demands for publishers to permit all papers published by their academics to be made open access for no extra charge...

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Elsevier Acquisition Highlights the Need for Community-based Scholarly Communication Infrastructure

Heather Joseph and Kathleen Shearer | SPARC | September 6, 2017

Like many others in the scholarly community, we were very disappointed to learn about the recent acquisition by Elsevier of bepress, the provider of the popular Digital Commons repository platform. The acquisition is especially troubling for the hundreds of institutions that use Digital Commons to support their open access repositories. These institutions now find their repository services owned and managed by Elsevier, a company well known for its obstruction of open access and repositories...

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Elsevier Adds Open Access Journal: Annals of Medicine and Surgery to its Medical Journal Portfolio

Press Release | Elsevier | October 24, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces it has added Annals of Medicine and Surgery (AMS), an online-only, open access journal devoted to physicians and surgeons in training, to its medical journal portfolio. Read More »

Elsevier And Kitware Bring 3D Visualization Tools And Techniques To ScienceDirect

Press Release | Elsevier, Kitware, ScienceDirect | October 15, 2013

[Elsevier] and [Kitware] today announced that Elsevier journals offer the opportunity to upload 3D datasets when submitting a paper for publication. This way, once published, readers can interactively explore 3D datasets next to the online article on ScienceDirect. Read More »

Elsevier Announces the Launch of International Journal of Surgery Open

Press Release | Elsevier, IJS Publishing Group | August 4, 2015

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of the International Journal of Surgery Open (IJS Open), a new open access journal covering all areas of surgery. This peer-reviewed, online-only journal will make significant contributions to knowledge in clinical surgery, experimental surgery, and surgical education and history widely available to the global surgical community. The journal began accepting submissions in March 2015 and will begin publishing articles in August 2015.

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Elsevier Announces The Launch Of Open Access Journal: Biomolecular Detection And Quantification (BDQ)

Press Release | Elsevier | October 27, 2014

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, Biomolecular Detection and Quantification  - BDQ...

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Elsevier Backs Down, Removes Support for Research Works Act as Elsevier Boycott Grows

Mike Masnick | Techdirt | February 27, 2012

While it never got as much attention as the GoDaddy boycott, it appears the growing boycott of academics, refusing to publish papers in any Reed Elsevier journal, has caused the company to back down. It has now announced that it no longer supports the Research Works Act. Read More »

Elsevier Backs Off RWA Support; Still Opposes Mandated Open Access

Meredith Schwartz | Library Journal | February 27, 2012

Scientific journal publisher Elsevier today withdrew its support for the Research Works Act (RWA), a bill which would have prohibited open access mandates for federally funded research. The publisher had been the target of a boycott among academics, as LJ reported. At press time, 7,486 researchers had pledged not to publish, referee or do editorial work for Elsevier’s journals. Read More »

Elsevier Blinks, Will No Longer Support Research Works Act

Mark Hoofnagle | ScienceBlogs | February 27, 2012

In a victory for science, and those who favor open access for the easy dissemination of scientific results to the public and scientists around the world, Elsevier has withdrawn support for the Research Works Act. Read More »

Elsevier Clamps Down On Academics Posting Their Own Papers Online

Olivia Solon | Wired | December 17, 2013

Academic publisher Elsevier has been targeting open access websites and universities that are posting their own academic articles online with takedown notices for copyright infringement. Read More »

Elsevier Costs Too Much

Polly Thistlethwaite | Miss Informed | May 13, 2012

When journals evolved from exclusive print formats into some variety of electronic hybrid, librarians valued the extra service their formats offered, and we justified paying more for them... Read More »

Elsevier Donates Unified Data Model to The Pistoia Alliance

Press Release | Elsevier, Pistoia Alliance | October 10, 2017

Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, has announced it is donating its Unified Data Model (UDM) to The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D. The UDM is an XML file format originally developed by Elsevier to improve the upload of external data sets into its tools. It will now be developed and extended under the stewardship of The Pistoia Alliance, with the ultimate aim of publishing an open and freely available format for the storage and exchange of drug discovery data. The UDM will become a common model allowing data to be easily shared and integrated between parties. This will greatly accelerate drug discovery research and overcome a shared barrier to collaboration...

Elsevier Experts To Highlight Reaxys®, Other Solutions At ACS Dallas

Press Release | Elsevier | March 14, 2014

Experts from Elsevier...will showcase Reaxys®, a workflow solution for research chemists, and other electronic solutions at the 247th ACS National Meeting in Dallas, March 16-20, 2014. Read More »

Elsevier Is Taking Down Papers From Academia.edu

Mike Taylor | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week (SV-POW) | December 6, 2013

Lots of researchers post PDFs of their own papers on their own web-sites. It’s always been so, because even though technically it’s in breach of the copyright transfer agreements that we blithely sign, everyone knows it’s right and proper. Preventing people from making their own work available would be insane, and the publisher that did it would be committing a PR gaffe of huge proportions. Read More »