A journey by Robin Kok and Eiko Fried trying to understand what private data Elsevier collects; what private data Elsevier sells; and what to do about it.

The Kostoff knowledge v.8 Earlier this month, Elsevier’s Toxicology Reports (CiteScore 6.2, top quartile) published a special issue on the COVID-19 pandemic.  Its includes a remarkable articl…

ResearchGate recently received demands from two publishers — Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) — to remove certain content that they alleged infringed their copyrights. These types of requests are not really new: we have received many similar requests from them in the past, and,...

Well-done advocacy from UL Geffert.

The publishing giant will likely survive the latest boycott by scientists. An overhaul is needed to make science publishing fair and open.

After more than two years of negotiations, in March 2021 the University of California announced a transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. This successful outcome is the result of UC’s faculty, librarians and university leadership coming together to stand firm on the goals of making UC research freely available to all and transforming scholarly communication for the better. The four-year agreement goes into effect on April 1, 2021, restoring UC’s direct online access to Elsevier journals while accomplishing the university’s two goals for all publisher agreements: (1)   Enabling universal open access to all UC […]

Six members of the Virginia Research Libraries (VRL) group recently completed contract negotiations with Elsevier, the largest publisher of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) scholar…

The case in Delhi High Court against Sci-Hub and LibGen, which give students and researchers access to papers for free, is against public interest.

the usual mendacious garbage

After many years of fierce resistance to open access, academic publishers have largely embraced -- and extended -- the idea, ensuring...

This is a BOMBSHELL, holy crap.

Elsevier et al. against Sci-Hub: more surveillance, more data sales. Including biometric markers, apparently.

A first critical evaluation of the Swiss Read and Publish Agreement with Elsevier

Article: Cancelling with the world’s largest scholarly publisher: lessons from the Swedish experience of having no access to Elsevier

SHADE-THROWING MASTERCLASS OMG