by Katy Nelson | Jun 16, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing
Former Elsevier president John J. Regazzi (now dean of the College of Information and Computer Science at Long Island University) has recently authored a book entitled Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker. In an...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 15, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing
The CBC has posted an article about the recent PLoS study on the marketplace dominance of a few large scholarly publishing companies. The article is a readable account of the some of the financial difficulties posed by this model.Some interesting points: -The...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 11, 2015 | Events, OA policies & mandates, Open access
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are hosting an online session about their Open Access Policy. A French...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 11, 2015 | News, Publishing
A new study by researchers at l’Université de Montréal, suggests that over 50% of academic publishing is controlled by five companies: Reed-Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis and Sage. The study suggests that market share of...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 11, 2015 | News, Publishing
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, the second oldest medical journal in the US, has reached an agreement with Elsevier, the scholarly publishing giant. Elsevier will take over publication of the journal in 2016.Read more about it here.
