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Archives: Elsevier

Guest Post:  This Open Access Week Theme Has a Distinguished History

Some thoughts on this year’s Open Access Week theme, “community over commercialization.”

  • By Mark Hooper
  • Oct 22, 2024
  • 0 Comments

A Look Under the Hood of Scopus AI: An Interview with Maxim Khan

To learn about how Scopus AI works under the hood, we interview Elsevier Sr. VP of Analytics Products and Data Platform, Maxim Khan.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 25, 2024
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — Why Are UK Libraries Signing a Springer-Nature Deal They Don’t Seem to Like?

Libraries continue to sign Transformative Agreements while becoming increasingly convinced that they do not represent the desired transformation. Peter Barr explains why this happens.

  • By Peter Barr
  • Jun 22, 2023
  • 10 Comments

Will New Clarivate Leadership Yield a Renewed Focus on Its Products?

Today, Clarivate has installed Bar Veinstein as president for Academic and Government, a move that should bring renewed focus to the product portfolio, writes Roger C. Schonfeld.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Apr 19, 2023
  • 3 Comments

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Judy Verses

Robert Harington talks to Judy Verses, President Academic and Government Markets, Elsevier, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 21, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA) and Elsevier Conclude Negotiations for Access to ScienceDirect Journals

Ginger Williams and Posie Aagaard offer a look at the Texas Library Coalition and its new deal with Elsevier.

  • By Ginger Williams, Posie Aagaard
  • Jan 12, 2023
  • 0 Comments

The Peer Review Workbench: An Interview with Bahar Mehmani

Learn about Elsevier’s recently launched Peer Review Workbench – a new tool for researchers conducting meta research – in this interview with Bahar Mehmani

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 8, 2022
  • 3 Comments

Going Legit Part 2: The Continuing Path from Piracy to Partnership

An SSP Meeting Session showing the results from publisher partnerships with Researchgate suggest the company is shifting from a source of potential infringement to a distribution channel that is being folded into more and more organizations.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jun 27, 2022
  • 6 Comments

Retroactively Open: Elsevier Backflips for NERL Agreement

In a novel license agreement, Elsevier agrees to open backfile content from a consortium of elite private institutions. Will other libraries and publishers follow this model?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Mar 16, 2022
  • 9 Comments

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect as Content Supercontinent? 

Does today’s news of Wiley etc. syndicating to ScienceDirect mean Elsevier is developing a supercontinent to compete with ResearchGate and Google Scholar? 

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 18, 2022
  • 20 Comments

The New Clarivate Science: A Second-Order Consequence of Open Access

Today, Roger C. Schonfeld argues that Clarivate’s acquisition of ProQuest, which was completed last week, is another second-order consequence of open access.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Dec 9, 2021
  • 10 Comments

How One Society Is Supporting Peer Review Excellence in their Community: An Interview with Laura Feetham of IOP Publishing

In today’s post, Alice Meadows talks to Laura Feetham of IOP Publishing about their work to improve peer review quality in the physical sciences through their ongoing peer review excellence program.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 11, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Six Questions (with Answers!) about UC’s and Elsevier’s New Transformative Deal

Six questions and answers about the new transformative deal between Elsevier and the University of California.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 25, 2021
  • 38 Comments

The Biggest Big Deal 

The newly announced California/Elsevier transformative agreement will test the financial sustainability and the financial desirability of the multi-payer model.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Mar 16, 2021
  • 16 Comments

Elsevier Has Deployed an End-user Tracking Tool for Security. Should Users Be Concerned About Their Privacy?

Should library patrons be concerned about how Elsevier uses ThreatMetrix and how it tracks users? It’s complicated.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 13, 2020
  • 7 Comments

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