Wired.co.uk | December 17, 2013 | Olivia Solon
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.
It started earlier this month, when Elsevier sent open access forum Academia.edu 2,800 takedown notices for articles it owns the copyright to within a couple of weeks.
For more on this article see: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-12/17/elsevier-versus-open-access
More on the boycott against Elsevier: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/academic-publisher-elsevier-hit-with-growing-boycott-1.1166665
