By Ruth A. Pagell* (6 Oct 2022) Generations ago, when I was in college, I took Russian as my language requirement. In 1979, I had the opportunity to travel to Russia, then known as the Soviet Union with Kiev and Minsk as Russian cities. My college Russian was just good enough to get us to…
(10 Mar 2022) Since Russian forces invaded their country, Ukrainian scientists have repeatedly issued a plea to the world’s journal editors: Punish Russia by declining to publish manuscripts from its scientists. But editors and publishers have largely refused the call. The journals cite a long-held principle in scientific publishing, enshrined by the International Science Council and…
(12 Mar 2022) Clarivate respects and supports the rule of international law and joins the global community in condemning Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Given the continued aggression against Ukraine by Russian forces, Clarivate has made the decision to close its office in Russia effective immediately and we will work to cease commercial activity in Russia…
(3 December 2018) Sci-Hub, the popular pirate site that bypasses paywalls to illicitly host millions of pay-to-read scientific papers, is being blocked in Russia after a court in the country ruled against the site. Last month, the Moscow City Court ruled that Sci-Hub should be blocked in the country following complaints from the academic publishers…
Collaboration between Springer and two prestigious Russian institutes will allow an international audience to benefit from outstanding educational mathematics material (29 May 2018) A new prestigious mathematics textbook series called Moscow Lectures will be published by Springer Nature starting in May 2018. The series builds on the outstanding mathematics research and education tradition in Moscow,…
The 58-year-old library head faces jail for storing books written by a Ukrainian nationalist writer, in a case denounced as political persecution (29 October 2015) Authorities in Moscow have detained the 58-year-old director of a well-known Ukrainian library for “inciting hatred” after a raid allegedly turned up “anti-Russian propaganda”. Natalia Sharina, the director of the…
(24 August 2015) In Indonesia, a number of online reading services are battling to get more eyeballs. Today, a new competitor from Russia entered the fray. Bookmate, an eBook subscription platform that brings paid access to markets that tend to have lots of piracy such as Russia and the Ukraine, announced its entrance into the…