Elsevier – Access

Elsevier launches Ebola Information Center with free clinical and research resources

PublishersJune 14, 2026

(12 Jun 2026) Following the World Health Organization’s declaration of an Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), Elsevier has launched an Ebola Information Center to provide healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, and the public with free access to clinical and research resources. The center consolidates…

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UUK and Elsevier partner to map university research strengths

PublishersJune 11, 2026

(4 Jun 2026) Universities UK (UUK) and Elsevier have announced a partnership aimed at strengthening the evidence base around how UK university research supports the UK Government’s eight priority sectors under its Modern Industrial Strategy. The collaboration will combine UUK’s policy expertise and knowledge of the higher education sector with Elsevier’s research analytics capabilities to…

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Elsevier retracts the least and reinstates the most, new analysis finds

eJournalsMay 15, 2026

(11 May 2026) While Elsevier outcompetes other publishers in terms of sheer volume, it also has the lowest retraction rate and highest rate of reinstating articles among nine top publishers of scholarly articles, a recent study has found. The study also found a tenth publisher to be an outlier in terms of reasons for retraction. “Every publisher…

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Elsevier launches AI-assisted workspace to accelerate research and discovery

Publishers, UncategorizedNovember 23, 2025

(19 Nov 2025) Elsevier introduces LeapSpace™, a next-generation AI-assisted workspace built to transform how academic and corporate scientists work. Designed for speed, collaboration, and discovery, LeapSpace empowers academic and corporate researchers to uncover deeper insights, accelerate innovation, and collaborate seamlessly – in one secure environment they can trust. 84% of researchers say they have used…

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Elsevier expands geographical pricing for open access to support greater participation in global research

PublishersOctober 27, 2025

(22 Oct 2025) Elsevier, a global leader in advanced information and decision support in science and healthcare, is expanding its Geographical Pricing for Open Access (GPOA) initiative to an additional 150 gold open access journals, following the success of its 2024 pilot. This expansion means around 300 journals will offer pricing based on geography to help…

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Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives

Data, Research StoriesSeptember 30, 2025

(27 Sept 2025) The attached article discusses the recent significant reduction in the availability of abstracts for scholarly articles from major publishers like Elsevier and Springer Nature on open academic metadata aggregators such as OpenAlex. Over recent years, AI-powered academic search tools have heavily relied on open abstracts for effective research discovery. However, since…

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Elsevier announces next-generation AI-powered researcher solution

PublishersSeptember 19, 2025

(17 Sept 2025) Elsevier has announced that it is developing a next-generation end-to-end AI-powered solution for academic and corporate researchers in collaboration with the research community. The solution is intended to transform the research workflow by helping scientists move more quickly from insights to impact while safeguarding research integrity, transparency, and trust. The effort is described as…

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Elsevier journal under fire over ‘AI-generated’ review comments

Research SupportJuly 14, 2025

Researcher who waited nearly two years for rejection claims ‘nonsensical’ criticisms of his paper must have been chatbot-generated. (11 Jul 2025) A UK academic has criticized the suspected use of chatbots in peer review after he was given lengthy instructions on improving his statistical analysis – despite not including any statistics in his rejected paper.…

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Elsevier launches ScienceDirect AI

PublishersMarch 21, 2025

(12 Mar 2025) Elsevier launches ScienceDirect AI, a cutting-edge generative AI tool for researchers. It is designed to transform the way researchers work by enabling them to instantly extract, summarize and compare trusted insights from millions of full-text articles and book chapters on ScienceDirect, the world’s largest platform for trusted, peer-reviewed research. Researchers grapple with an…

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Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes

PublishersJanuary 14, 2025

(27 Dec 2024) All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with the ethos of the journal and preclude maintaining the quality and integrity fundamental to JHE’s success.” Among other moves, according to the statement,…

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