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Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Anna Eshoo Send Letters to Nine Aggregators Regarding “Expensive, Restrictive E-Book Lending Contracts with Libraries”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), EBSCO, Elsevier, Gale, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., today sought answers about expensive, restrictive e-book lending contracts with libraries, in letters to nine e-book aggregators and platforms. Aggregators are middlemen that license e-books to libraries on behalf of book publishers, and can also develop the e-lending platforms used […]
Report: “Predatory Publishers’ Latest Scam: Bootlegged and Rebranded Papers”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, Journal Articles, News, Publishing, Reports
|From Nature: One tactic predatory journals have used is to mimic longstanding legitimate journals online (or sometimes to acquire the titles). Predators rely on the journal’s reputation to collect fees1 without providing scholarly services. In August, scholar Anna Abalkina at the Free University of Berlin reported that a list of COVID-19 publications maintained by the […]
Elsevier, Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press and Copyright Clearance Center join Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative (via Kudos) Increasing Participation of Women in the Climate Change Debate, Including as Leaders, is Essential For a Carbon-Zero Future (via Int. Science Council) New Census Tool Provides Easy Access to Child Poverty Rates in Every U.S. School District (via […]
Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) Celebrates First Anniversary, Number of Publishers Supporting More Than Doubled During Year One
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Frontiers, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, PLOS, Springer Nature
|From a Blog Post by Ludo Waltman, Bianca Kramer, and David Shotton: When I4OA was launched one year ago, the initiative was supported by 40 publishers, including Hindawi, Royal Society, and SAGE, who are founding members of the initiative. Among the initial supporters of I4OA there were commercial publishers (e.g., F1000, Frontiers, Hindawi, MDPI, PeerJ, […]
UPDATED POST (October 27, 2021) University Libraries Discusses Recent Budget Cuts in Information Session (via The Daily Tar Heel) –End Update– From the UNC University Libraries Website: As part of the University’s efforts to address its budget challenges, the University Libraries will absorb approximately $2 million in cuts to library collections during FY 21-22 and […]
Georgia: GALILEO Initiative Joins Project ReShare (via PR) How the COPIM Project and the UCSB Library are “Scaling Small” Toward an Open Monograph Future (via Office of Scholarly Communication, U. of California) Kudos and Impact Science Launch the Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative (via Kudos) Preprints From SSRN Now Available Through Elsevier’s Scopus Database (via Elsevier) […]
From the University of Missouri Libraries: As discussed in the fall, beginning Spring 2021, the University of Missouri Libraries implemented a reduction in collections expenditures after reviewing package agreements with our five largest publishers: Elsevier, Oxford, Sage, Springer and Wiley. Ultimately, we decided not to continue with the package agreements. Instead, we moved to a […]
Scientific Publishing Organizations and All 17 U.S. National Laboratories Partner on Transgender-Inclusive Name-Change Process for Published Papers
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Jobs, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing, Springer Nature
|From the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Complete News Release): All seventeen U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals, and other organizations in scientific publishing announced today the beginning of a partnership to support name change requests from researchers on past published papers. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is coordinating the effort. This agreement […]
Journal Article: “Toward Transparency of Hybrid Open Access Through Publisher-Provided Metadata: An Article-Level Study of Elsevier”
Data Files, Elsevier, Funding, News, Open Access, Publishing
|The full article linked below was recently published by the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Title Toward Transparency of Hybrid Open Access Through Publisher-Provided Metadata: An Article-Level Study of Elsevier Authors Najko Jahn University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Lisa Matthias Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Mikael Laakso Hanken School of […]
Roundup (June 8, 2021)
Elsevier, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup, Springer Nature
|Liverpool University Press Join Opening the Future (via COPIM) SPARC Statement on Public Access Provisions in the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (SPARC) Springer Nature and LYRASIS Announce Open Access Sponsorship Agreement for Books that Support Research and Teaching Aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals Ted Nelson Email Archive Now Available to Researchers, Collection […]