(15 Aug 2022) Elsevier has today launched a Monkeypox Information Center. The hub will be continually updated and provide free access to relevant research and clinical information on the Monkeypox virus from across Elsevier’s scientific and medical journals and clinical resources for healthcare professionals. This research and health information will be freely available from Elsevier platforms and…
(9 Jun 2022) CiteScore 2021 values are now available in Scopus! There are over 15,000 titles which have a CiteScore 2021 but no Impact Factor. Of these 15,000+ titles, 708 of the titles are very highly ranked (in the top 10%) of their subject area. Find out more from the announcement here. See CiteScore 2021…
(2nd Jun 2022) Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, is establishing a pilot with Oable, the innovative open access (OA) workflow management solution developed by Knowledge Unlatched, to simplify the librarian approval workflow for open access publishing. Oable supports libraries in managing their OA activities across publishers, including different types…
(9 May 2022) Dr. Eiko Fried, an Associate Professor at Leiden University shared his journey with Robin Kok trying to understand what data Elsevier collects and trying to get their personal data deleted. Publishers such as Elsevier may collect more personal data than you think, with or without your consent. See here for the full…
By Ruth A. Pagell* What roles do publicly traded companies have in the scholarly supply chain and how can that affect university decisions? How are the companies supplying the data for the rankings, increasing their revenue and influencing and impacting the rankings? Where are the libraries? Should universities be rated as companies? ABSTRACT: The…
(2 Feb 2022) ResearchGate has made its statement over its case with Elsevier and ACS in Germany: “In a judgment Monday, the Regional Court of Munich I dismissed the damages claims filed by the scientific publishers Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) against ResearchGate in 2017. Remarkably, the court found, based on numerous…
(18 Jan 2022) Elsevier announced a pilot project in which the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley will syndicate selected content to the ScienceDirect platform. The articles will appear in search and browse listings. In the pilot, more than 70,000 articles in 35 journals in organic chemistry and transportation…
(2 Nov 2021) Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, today unveils a comprehensive study on the state of global clean energy research. The study reveals that China is leading the way in research to achieve net zero, with its funding agencies supporting the single largest share of clean energy publications, by far, between 2016…
(5 Oct 2021) The academic social networking site ResearchGate has removed about 200,000 files from among the research papers it publicly shares, prompted by a spate of new copyright complaints from Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS). ResearchGate, which is based in Germany and has more than 20 million users, says the majority of these…
(9 Apr 2021) Two major library vendors—RELX and Thomson Reuters—have been building sophisticated, global systems of surveillance that include online tracking technologies, massive aggregation of user data, and the sale of services based on this tracking, including to governments and law enforcement. Dollars from library subscriptions, directly or indirectly, now support these systems of surveillance. This should be deeply concerning…