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ACRL Urges Librarians to Sign Research Access Petition
By on May 22, 2012
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has urged librarians and other interested parties to sign a petition calling for public access to all federally funded research, which was posted on the White House’s “We the People” website on May 21. If the petition gets 25,000 signatures within 30 days, it will be considered for action by the White House staff.
Elsevier to Allow Text Mining Access to UBC Researchers
By on May 9, 2012
Elsevier has agreed that researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) can text-mine Elsevier content for a wide variety of purposes, including direct analysis for research, selection of excerpts for citizen science, and calculating statistics on the usage of research objects for open dissemination in research tools.
Elsevier Debuts Peer Review Transparency Pilot
By on April 4, 2012
Scientific journal publisher Elsevier launched a pilot project testing peer review transparency as part of its ongoing Content Innovation project, the company announced on April 2. Review reports for articles in Elsevier’s Agricultural and Forest Meteorology will be published alongside the article on SciVerse ScienceDirect throughout 2012, provided they meet quality standards. If successful, the [...]
Elsevier Backs Off RWA Support; Still Opposes Mandated Open Access
By on February 27, 2012
This article has been updated to include information on the bill’s status and from ACRL. Scientific journal publisher Elsevier today withdrew its support for the Research Works Act (RWA), a bill which would have prohibited open access mandates for federally funded research. The publisher had been the target of a boycott among academics, as LJ [...]
Joining the Movement: A Call to Action | Peer to Peer Review
By on February 16, 2012
It’s a Jungle Out There | Peer to Peer Review
By on February 9, 2012
Petition Targeting Elsevier’s Business Practices Begins to Snowball
By on January 31, 2012
Serials Solutions Summon Service to Add Full-Text Indexing of SciVerse ScienceDirect
By on June 21, 2011
Serials Solutions, a unit of ProQuest LLC, and Elsevier are planning to index the full-text of SciVerse ScienceDirect content within the Summon web-scale discovery service, the companies announced today. Researchers will be able to search the full text of all ScienceDirect journal articles and ebooks via the Summon service. See also in LJ: Idea Contest [...]
