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Night View of the Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA, March 21, 2014 | © Courtesy of O Palsson/Flickr.

Conflicts with Large Journal Publishers Can Slow Down University Libraries’ Efforts to Transition to Open Access Models

The likely reason that the journal subscription contract negotiations between the library system of the University of California, comprising 100 libraries, services to about 238,000 students and resources for circa 69,000 faculty members, and Elsevier that commands a portfolio of over 1,000 journal titles appear to be dead-ending is that global publishers are yet to adjust their extant models to the demands for and of Open Access. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. While the University of California, which across its 10 campuses accounts for up to 10% of yearly scholarly output in the United States, plays hardball with Elsevier […]

University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, April 9, 2010 | © Courtesy of Tom Ipri /Flickr.

The Scientific Community Supports Funders Mandating Open Access, Adds Balance to the Discussion of the Plan S

More than 1,800 researchers have endorsed the plan by science funding bodies to transition to Open Access their models of disbursing funds to researchers, as the European Plan S continues to garner international backing, such as from China. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. Launched on November 28, 2018, an online statement by scholars from around the world has effectively affirmed the importance of Open Access scientific progress, the barrier-free dissemination of research results and the pivotal role that funders can play, such as through their mandates, in maintaining or changing the existing system of scholarly publishing. Though this statement […]

NYC, Midtown, New York Public Library Main Building, New York, NY, USA, August 22, 2011 | © Courtesy of Wally Gobetz/Flickr.

Recent Studies Point to Mixed Findings on the Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles over Paywall-Protected Papers

While the research of Hajar Sotudeh and Zohreh Estakhr indicates that Open Access articles published in Elsevier-published hybrid journals have a consistent, sustainable and cross-discipline advantage in terms of their citation performance over subscription-based papers published in these journals, from the more recent data that Prashat Kamat has presented it tentatively follows that, for journals published by the American Chemical Society, Wiley and Springer Nature, Open Access articles are as likely to demonstrate higher visibility performance than their closed-access counterparts in these journals as not. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In their study, published in Scientometrics on February 17, […]

Stockholms Stadsbibliotek, Stockholm, Sweden, May 28, 2009 | © Courtesy of Bruno Vanbesien/Flickr.

Elsevier Gets Blocked in Sweden After it Legally Requires Internet Providers to Make Sci-Hub Locally Inaccessible

Even though Elsevier, which had failed to sign journal subscription contracts with Swedish university libraries over their demands for Open Access, has won a battle against Sci-Hub, an illegal platform for sharing scientific articles, in local courts in Sweden, Bahnhof, a local internet service provider, both complied with the injunction not to offer access to pirated content and effectively counter-blocks local attempts at browsing the websites of Elsevier and the Swedish court. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. As the largest player in the journal publishing market, Elsevier is significantly exposed to the risk that illegal file downloading, such as […]

Petri Art, the Wellcome Trust, London, England, UK, February 28, 2009 | © Courtesy of gwire/Flickr.

Though the Plan S May Significantly Affect Open Access Journals, it Can also Reduce the Publishing Market Concentration

As a formal complaint over the anti-competitive impact of Elsevier, a globally dominant scientific publisher, on the journal publishing market has been placed with the European Commission, such as due to the lacking transparency of its pricing practices, the Plan S is likely provide incentives to scholarly journals to change their models in the direction of making publication costs visible upfront in the Open Access sector. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In late October, 2018, the RELX Group, which holds Elsevier as part of its portfolio, was complained against, e.g., by the paleontologist Jonathan Tennant and the neurobiologist Björn […]

Alte Universitätsbibliothek, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, January 30, 2018 | © Courtesy of Rüdiger Stehn/Flickr.

The Conflict over Open Access between Elsevier and German Academic Institutions Shows the Importance of Journal Subscriptions

As an agreement on terms of access to paywall-protected journals between Germany’s educational and scientific organizations and the international publishing house Elsevier continues to elude the negotiating parties, a growing criticism from the side of scholarly publishers and university representatives indicates that journal subscriptions are critical for scientific research and publication processes, in spite of the expected transition to Open Access. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. Since the subscription contract deal talks between the Project DEAL, the German consortium of research universities and institutes, and Elsevier have been taking place for about two years, the current lack of clarity […]

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