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Report: “Russian Site Peddles Paper Authorship in Reputable Journals for Up to $5000 a Pop”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Journal Articles, News, Springer Nature
|From Science: Since 2019, Anna Abalkina has been monitoring a website that offers an illicit way for scientists to burnish their CVs. The site, operated from Russia, openly offers to sell authorship slots on soon-to-be-published scientific papers, for fees ranging from several hundred dollars to nearly $5000. Abalkina, a sociologist at the Free University of […]
LIBER Posts “Four Urgent Recommendations for Open Access Negotiations with Publishers”
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From LIBER (Assoc. of European Research Libraries): Today, with the ESAC Market Watch documenting more than half a million research articles enabled for immediate Open Access publication in the past five years,[1] transformative agreements (TAs)[2] have emerged as a highly impactful Open Access transition strategy. Yet beyond the sheer amount of openness achieved, the process […]
From the Russell Group: Jisc, which co-ordinates digital services for the higher education sector, has announced today (23 March) that UK universities have agreed a three-year agreement with Elsevier providing both unlimited open access publishing and access to paywalled journal articles for a significant reduction on current institutional spend. Responding to the news, a Russell Group spokesperson […]
Roundup (March 9, 2022)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Elsevier, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Roundup
|ARL Comments on Draft Genomic Data Management and Sharing Policy (via Association of Research Libraries) Elsevier Inclusion & Diversity Data Snapshot History as it Happens: Rescuing the Historical Record in a Digital World Wiley and OhioLINK Sign Agreement to Publish More Open Access Research
Delta Think Releases Annual Survey of Article Processing Charges (APCs)
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, News, Open Access
|NOTE: Delta Think is hosting a free webinar to discuss the APC survey findings on March 30, 2020. Details here. — From Delta Think: Each year we survey the list Article Processing Charges (APCs) of a sample of major and significant publishers. Covering over 18,000 titles, and going back to 2016, our data set represents […]
Interview with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe: “How Will Termination of Research Partnerships with Russia Affect Global Scientific Research”
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Publishing
|From the Illinois News Bureau: Financial, political, commercial and cultural entities quickly cut ties with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. Some universities also are ending research projects and scientific cooperation with institutions in Russia. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, the coordinator for information literacy services and instruction and a professor in the University Library at the […]
From Oregon. St. University Library: Oregon State University Libraries, Portland State University Library, and the University of Oregon Libraries are entering into contract negotiations with Elsevier for journal access in 2023, and for up to three years beyond that. For the sake of transparency, we want to reach out to our respective campuses to provide […]
Statements of Solidarity, Support For People of Ukraine by Archive, Library, Publishing, and Other Organizations
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Preservation, Elsevier, Ex Libris, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing, Special Libraries, Springer Nature
|Last Update: 11:30 A.M. Eastern (April 18, 2022) Statement by the President of the Ukrainian Library Association Mechanical Translation via Google Screen Cap of Mechanical Translation via Microsoft Translator Statements of Solidarity and Support (Latest Entry in Bold) ACS Publications Joins Other Publishers in Condemning Invasion of Ukraine American Historical Association: Historians Condemn Russian Invasion […]
Report: “The Giant Plan to Track Diversity in Research Journals”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, Journal Articles, News, Publishing
|From Nature: In the next year, researchers should expect to face a sensitive set of questions whenever they send their papers to journals, and when they review or edit manuscripts. More than 50 publishers representing over 15,000 journals globally are preparing to ask scientists about their race or ethnicity — as well as their gender […]
Report From Germany: “ResearchGate Must Take Down Elsevier Articles, Court Rules”
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|UPDATE (March 4, 2022) ResearchGate Dealt a Blow in Copyright Lawsuit (via Nature) Neither side emerged a clear winner in this case, says Nancy Sims, a librarian at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis who specializes in copyright issues. “Each party got some pieces that were very favourable to them and some pieces that were […]