(3 Sep 2024) Elsevier has today relaunched its Mpox Information Center. Mpox Information Center provides free access to all mpox-related information across Elsevier’s journals, medical books and clinical resources. It will be continuously updated with the latest research and clinical information on the viral disease and its treatment. Over 1,700 mpox-related research articles and book chapters…
(6 Jun 2024) Elsevier announces the upcoming release of CiteScore 2023, a powerful metric that provides transparent insights into journal citation impact. Key Highlights of CiteScore 2023 Release: Expanded Coverage: CiteScore 2023 includes 29,777 active titles, with 2,212 titles receiving their first CiteScore. This broader coverage ensures a more complete dataset for evaluating journal impact.…
(5 Jun 2024) Google was hit with a lawsuit on Wednesday by educational publishers Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Elsevier accusing the tech giant of promoting pirate copies of their textbooks. The publishers told the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, opens new tab that Google has ignored thousands of copyright-infringement notices and…
(20 Mar 2024) Elsevier today launches ‘View from the top: academic leaders’ and funders’ insights on the challenges ahead’, a comprehensive report that investigates the complex issues academic leaders and funders face and their preparedness to tackle them. The report also explores the strategies senior leaders are developing to leverage the opportunities that will ensure long-term success for their…
(16 Jan 2024) Elsevier today launches Scopus AI – a generative AI product to help researchers and research institutions get fast and accurate summaries and research insights that support collaboration and societal impact. Scopus AI is based on Scopus’ trusted content from over 27,000 academic journals, from more than 7,000 publishers worldwide, with over 1.8 billion…
(17 Oct 2023) Elsevier today announced that it is piloting Geographical Pricing for Open Access (GPOA) across 142 of its Gold Open Access journals to make open access article publishing charges (APCs) more affordable for authors in low- and middle-income countries. The GPOA model, a publishing industry first, is set to take effect from January…
(12 Oct 2023) Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) and Elsevier have established a transformative agreement in a major step forward in advancing global access to Japan’s scholarly publications through open access publishing. The three-year agreement will take effect from 2024 to 2026. The agreement, the largest of its kind to date…
(5 Oct 2023) Preprints are now searchable on Scopus upon performing a document search, according to a announcement made by Elsevier. As of June 2023, there are 1.8M preprint records in Scopus from the following seven preprint servers in total: arXiv ChemRxiv bioRxiv medRxiv SSRN TechRxiv Research Square Find out more here.
(15 Sep 2023) ACS and Elsevier, members of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing, have agreed to a legal settlement with ResearchGate that ensures copyright-compliant sharing of research articles published with ACS or Elsevier on the ResearchGate site. The lawsuits pending against ResearchGate in Germany and the United States are now resolved. The specific terms of…
(29 Aug 2023) PlumX Metrics are a primary source of article metrics on Scopus, providing insights into the ways people interact with research output in the online environment. By categorizing the metrics into five categories – Usage, Captures, Mentions, Social Media, and Citations – PlumX helps make sense of a large amount of metrics data and…