In the clink: George Orwell’s time in prison
In 1933, George Orwell’s now canonical memoir Down and Out in Paris and London was published, documenting his vivid recollections of living among the poor and destitute. But suspicions of… Read more »
What’s juicier, soccer match-fixing rings or scholarly peer review rings?
In the wake of the New York Times’ two-part report by Declan Hill and Jeré Longman on match-fixing in soccer and last week’s news, announced on the blog Retraction Watch, about 60 articles… Read more »
Mapping Open Access, or the lack thereof
Just how many scholars and researchers are running into paywalls as they go about their work? A new initiative, the Open Access Button, is in the process of making it… Read more »
Academic publisher sues librarian blogger for millions
“Beall’s list”, created by University of Colorado metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, collates the academic journals which he regards as questionable. His hard work on outing journals whose business and academic… Read more »
Academic researchers in battle against journal publishers
A spat of economic proportions is brewing in the academic publishing world. Tim Gowers, Fields Medal winner and mathematician at Cambridge posted an article last week claiming that expensive paywalls… 4 / Read more »
Elsevier backs down in response to academic uprising … or does it?
The “academic spring” uprising of professors against academic publishing giant Elsevier has led to at least a partial victory: in a statement released late Monday, the publisher announced it was… Read more »
Head of Reed Elsevier hits back at academic uprising
Even as the uprising against scholarly publisher Elsevier continues to spread — see this report from the Sydney Morning Herald about Australian academics joining in, and this CBC report about the… 2 / Read more »
What’s next in the Elsevier boycott?
What’s next in the Elsevier boycott? Well, first of all, says Neil Stewart of City University London in smart overview on the blog of the London School of Economics, “What can’t… Read more »
Furor over Elsevier escalates
The protest against academic journal publisher Elsevier continues to grow explosively, with another 1,000 professors joining the 5,000 we reported yesterday who have signed a petiton vowing not to peer-review or… 2 / Read more »
5,000 profs join boycott of Elsevier publications in international “academic spring”
An “academic spring” has broken out against scientific journal publisher Elsevier, says a New Scientist report by Jacob Aron. According to the report, “Inspired by a University of Cambridge mathematician,… Read more »