open access (OA)

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Easier Access To PLOS Data

Liz Allen | PLOS.org | January 30, 2013

You’ve always relied on PLOS to make scientific and medical research freely accessible to all. Now we’re introducing a number of tools and services to unlock the full potential of the data that currently exists in the Figures and Supporting Information files of our journals but has to this point been just beyond easy reach and these include: Read More »

EdX Announces Partnership With Google To Expand Open Source Platform

Press Release | edX | September 10, 2013

Google will collaborate with edX on MOOC.org, new destination and hosting site for online learning Read More »

EIFL Starts An OA Project In Kenya, Tanzania And Uganda

Press Release | EIFL | January 16, 2013

“Open access: knowledge sharing and sustainable scholarly communication in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda” is a new EIFL regional project funded by Spider, the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions DSV, Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm University. Read More »

eLife Produces Open Science Podcast Series

Press Release | eLife | July 25, 2013

eLife, an open access (OA) journal covering research in the life and biomedical sciences, will produce a podcast series with The Naked Scientists, broadcasters who present easy-to-understand science to the general public. Read More »

Elsevier And Kitware Bring 3D Visualization Tools And Techniques To ScienceDirect

Press Release | Elsevier, Kitware, ScienceDirect | October 15, 2013

[Elsevier] and [Kitware] today announced that Elsevier journals offer the opportunity to upload 3D datasets when submitting a paper for publication. This way, once published, readers can interactively explore 3D datasets next to the online article on ScienceDirect. Read More »

Elsevier Announces the Launch of International Journal of Surgery Open

Press Release | Elsevier, IJS Publishing Group | August 4, 2015

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of the International Journal of Surgery Open (IJS Open), a new open access journal covering all areas of surgery. This peer-reviewed, online-only journal will make significant contributions to knowledge in clinical surgery, experimental surgery, and surgical education and history widely available to the global surgical community. The journal began accepting submissions in March 2015 and will begin publishing articles in August 2015.

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Elsevier Clamps Down On Academics Posting Their Own Papers Online

Olivia Solon | Wired | December 17, 2013

Academic publisher Elsevier has been targeting open access websites and universities that are posting their own academic articles online with takedown notices for copyright infringement. Read More »

Elsevier Costs Too Much

Polly Thistlethwaite | Miss Informed | May 13, 2012

When journals evolved from exclusive print formats into some variety of electronic hybrid, librarians valued the extra service their formats offered, and we justified paying more for them... Read More »

Elsevier Experts To Highlight Reaxys®, Other Solutions At ACS Dallas

Press Release | Elsevier | March 14, 2014

Experts from Elsevier...will showcase Reaxys®, a workflow solution for research chemists, and other electronic solutions at the 247th ACS National Meeting in Dallas, March 16-20, 2014. Read More »

Elsevier Is Taking Down Papers From Academia.edu

Mike Taylor | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week (SV-POW) | December 6, 2013

Lots of researchers post PDFs of their own papers on their own web-sites. It’s always been so, because even though technically it’s in breach of the copyright transfer agreements that we blithely sign, everyone knows it’s right and proper. Preventing people from making their own work available would be insane, and the publisher that did it would be committing a PR gaffe of huge proportions. Read More »

Elsevier Launches New Open Access Journal In Biomedicine: Journal Of Clinical And Translational Endocrinology

Press Release | Elsevier | September 12, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of a new open access research publication - Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology (JCTE). Read More »

Elsevier Launches Open Access Journal: GeoResJ

Press Release | Elsevier | June 19, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of a new open access journal, GeoResJ. Read More »

Elsevier Still Charging For Open Access Copies, Two Years After It Was Told Of The Problem

Glyn Moody | Techdirt | March 21, 2014

For some reason, Elsevier seems to take delight in being hated by the academic world. Its support for the awful Research Works Act back in 2012 led to a massive boycott of the company by researchers. More recently, it has cracked down on academics posting PDFs of their own research. Now Peter Murray-Rust, one of the leading campaigners for open access, has caught Elsevier at it again. [...] Read More »

Elsevier: Bumps On Road To Open Access

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | March 27, 2014

An academic is asking researchers and librarians to send him more examples of cases where open access article fees have been paid to the publisher Elsevier but the article in question remains behind a paywall. The call has been made by Peter Murray-Rust, reader in molecular informatics at the University of Cambridge, after Elsevier admitted it had charged some people to reuse articles published with open licences.