The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It's a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
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Digital publishing hasn't resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars' labor.
There are major systemic problems associated with peer review that are negatively affecting scientific credibility.
A new policy by publisher Elsevier is threatening to wind back the gains made by the open access movement.
The publishing giant Elsevier owns much of the world’s academic knowledge, in the form of article copyright. In the past few weeks it has stepped up enforcement of its property rights, issuing “take-down…
Advocates of “open access” publishing in academia say a UK report that proposes spending £60 million a year to make all publicly-funded…
One of the great outrages of academia in the modern age is the privatisation of the profits accruing to publicly-financed knowledge. One form is that of academic journals, a primary method of disseminating…
A controversial US bill that was designed to block access to vast amounts of academic research appears to have collapsed…
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Professor, School of Psychology, University of Sydney
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MacKenzie Smith is a Friend of The Conversation.
University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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