Elsevier buys Mendeley, a million OA advocates groan
In a disturbing turn of events for the world of academic publishing, the announcement came yesterday that Mendeley, the British start-up that combined a research management system with a social… Read more »
Is Reed Elsevier nearing the iceberg?
Reed Elsevier scored big on Monday when the landmark papers reporting on the Higgs-Boson particle were published in their journal Physics Letters B, where they are freely available online to… 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 »
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 »