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Scholars v Elsevier STM in the Court of Public Opinion

03 Feb

Following up on LLB’s post, Won’t Publish, Won’t Referee, Won’t Do Editorial Work: Professors boycotting Elsevier STM journals because of the Company’s business practices, see also The Chronicle’s recent article. It reports on Elsevier’s response to the boycott and interviews…

 

Half-Empty, Half-Full: Each on Its Own Just One Side of the Reed Elsevier Financial Story

18 Jan

So …. whenever an investment house thinks share price for a company is trading too low, two types of reports are going to be produced. Type One will argue that the Company should divest itself of certain assets usually deemed…

 

Vote for the Best and Worst Law Product Mergers

09 Sep

Jean O’Grady has launched a poll for law librarians (and others) to assess the consequences of the legal publishing industry consolidation for once independently owned but now “brand” products of Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer. Jean writes I…

 

Publishers Attempt to Control the International Flow of Information: Read your license renewals carefully

20 Jun

The ARL Task Force on International Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Practices (chaired by James Neal, University Librarian at Columbia University) published a 29-page report this month this month outlining the isolatist position that publishing houses (like Elsevier, Wiley, etc.)…

 

Article Format of the Future: Elsevier Leads the Way for Online Journal Literature

13 Jun

Elsevier has launched new Article of the Future prototypes. From the press release: The improved Article of the Future format is one of several enhancements Elsevier is introducing to SciVerse ScienceDirect. APIs have been released to allow for applications to…