But when SSRN was acquired last year by academic
journal publisher Elsevier, a sibling company to LexisNexis, some scholars and information professionals became concerned that SSRN's free access would eventually be locked behind a paywall (even though SSRN said otherwise) or exploited to mine and sell user data.
But when SSRN was acquired last year by academic
journal publisher Elsevier, a -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education points out that the editors - in - chief of two other prominent scientific
publishers, Nature Publishing Group and
Elsevier, declined to sign the letter, although they agreed that
journal impact factors shouldn't be used to evaluate individual scientists.
The
publishers, including
Elsevier and Springer, are set to roll out software across their
journals that will scan submitted papers for identical or paraphrased chunks of text that appear in previously published articles.
This year, ResearchGate's membership snowballed; meanwhile, mathematician Timothy Gowers started a boycott of a leading
journal publisher,
Elsevier.
Charlton says he has received a letter from his
publisher,
Elsevier, saying that he will be fired on 11 May if he does not agree to an overhaul of procedures at Medical Hypotheses, the
journal which he has edited since 2003.
Thanks in part to several legal fights,
journal fees in the Netherlands have become public, and calculations by Waaijers have shown that
Elsevier charges two or even three times as much per article by Dutch authors as three other large
publishers.
The average
Elsevier journal license cost 3400 euros ($ 4693) per year, three times as high as licenses offered by the second - priciest
publisher, the university said in a statement.
The library at the University of Konstanz, which is balking at
journal prices charged by
publisher Elsevier.
He stands ready to help organize a boycott, if necessary, a tactic he and other researchers used successfully in 2003 when another big commercial
publisher,
Elsevier, bought Cell Press and tried to raise its
journal prices.
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After interest has been expressed in seeing this policy spread to other areas of federal research funding, such as education, it appears that
Elsevier, the leading corporate
publisher of scholarly
journals, and other
publishers have pushed for the Research Works Act to put an end to such initiatives (judging by
Elsevier's campaign support for the bipartisan sponsors of the bill, as Peter Suber documents in a website devoted to the bill).
The (
journal)
publisher's interest is presumably to comply with conditions imposed by the copyright owner: CUP might demand of
Elsevier that their reviewers delete electronic copies of books after the review is finished.
The initiative could yet can carve a huge hole in the earnings of
publishers like Reed
Elsevier, Informa, Wiley, Macmillan, Springer, and Wolters Kluwer which have long profited from subscription
journals crammed with the work of low - paid or unpaid author - researchers driven by the need for peer - review of their work.