23965 shaares
187 results
tagged
elsevier
I’m delighted to be able to offer a guest blog from Rebecca Kennison. Rebecca is the principal of K|N Consultants and has worked extensively in scholarly publishing. What follows is a remarkably acute analysis of Elsevier’s journal pricing practices that she recently contributed to the Open Scholarship Initiative listserv. (This version has been slightly edited […]
Another labor boycott threatened.
This presentation to the libraries@cambridge conference held on the 7th January 2016 describes some of the more surprising activities academic publishers are e…
On the Florida setup.
European Open Science Infrastructure, for open scholarly and scientific communication
Main event. Definitely. Elsevier's acquisition of the open access journal article and working papers repository and online community Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is definitely a case of Elsevier tipping their hand and giving us all a peek at their real long term strategy.
Elsevier is one of the world’s largest scholarly publishers and one of the most bitter enemies that open access publishing has; SSRN is one of the biggest open access scholarly publishing rep…
I took part in a recent Scopus training webinar about a month ago where it was casually mentioned that Scopus doesn’t index all of Elsevier’s journals. This sparked my interest: Why wou…
Nearly a year ago I wrote The Maginot Paywall about the rise of research into the peer-to-peer sharing of academic papers via mechanisms in...
#Bibliogifts in LibGen? Text sharing powered by biblioleaks + crowdsourcing http://t.co/GZXdYaQM7g in @JASIST or here http://t.co/bhffXBAUcc — Guillaume... #English #hybridopenaccess #openaccess
2016-02-01 - By Nancy K. Herther (part 1 of a 2 part article) In early November 2015, the entire editorial staff of the prestigious linguistics journal, Lingua, -
Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive. Some researchers are drumming up support for a movement to change that.