Copyright Lawsuits Won’t Stop People from Sharing Research In principle, everyone in the world should have access to the same body of knowledge. The UN Declaration of Human Rights says that everyone

A long-running stand-off has been resolved as a three-year deal on subscriptions is agreed

A few days ago several large online repositories of free books and academic articles were pulled offline. Sci-Hub, BookFi and LibGen had their domain names taken away after Elsevier beat them in court. However, the site's operators are not planning to cease their activities and are continuing their operations through alternative domains and on the dark web.

Share this letter - read it in public - leave it in the printer. Share your writing - digitize a book - upload your files. Don't let our knowledge be crushed. Care for the libraries - care for the metadata - care for the backup. Water the flowers - clean the volcanoes.

Elsevier has pretty much established itself as the most hated company in the world of academic publishing, a fact demonstrated most...

The recent infight between the world’s largest academic publishing company, Elsevier, and (soon: former) editors of one of their journals over attempts to make the journal open access –…

Yet again, h ttp://www.cafepress.com/fakeelsevier     In late October, the editors and editorial board, six and thirty-one people, respect...

The editors of the academic journal Lingua quit to protest high fees from publisher Elsevier.

Elsevier has just published a response of sorts to the resignation of the Lingua editors and editorial board. The company there claims that:

This dataset contains all journal embargo periods published by Elsevier in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, for both UK and non-UK authors. It also contains a set of notes on the overall statistics, plus annual changes between lists. In summary, 87.9% of currently published Elsevier journals (in early 2018) offer a twelve-month or less embargo period for UK authors, and 58.6% for non-UK authors. Weighted by publication volume, it was around 88% of papers for UK authors in 2017, generally consistent with the journal-level data.Since the first general list was published in 2013, the general trend has been to add more journals to the list and (gradually) lower embargo periods; in 2015 and 2016 this has included a substantial increase in zero-embargo titles. The majority of journals have a stated embargo period and in most cases it has been reasonably stable since 2015. There has been a noticeable reduction in active titles in 2018, meaning the percentage of active journals with suitable embargos has decreased, but these journals appear to have had a low publication volume and so the overall effect is relatively minor. A number of substantial anomalies developed between the lists in 2013 and 2014, with journals being removed or having their embargo periods extended. These have since been created, but around a dozen mismatches have reappeared in the late-2017/early-2018 version of the lists.

Jimmy Wales asked to reconsider arrangement with paywalled science publisher Elsevier.

Institutions pressure Elsevier to permit all Dutch papers to be freely available online by 2024