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The Boycott Elsevier movement discussed here on Techdirt several times was born of a frustration at the high prices of academic journals...

While the global boycott of Elsevier by academics continues to gain momentum and signatures – at the time of writing, the number is appro...

It's now widely recognized that the extreme demands of SOPA/PIPA catalyzed a new activism within the Net world, epitomized by the bla...

The arguments against open access have moved on from the initial "it'll never work" to the "maybe it'll work, but...

Open access is about making copies of publicly-funded research available freely online. This stems from the belief that (a) having paid for...

Interesting : it is not open access per se that is threatening Elsevier (High Energy Physics since long have had almost 100% open access upt...

Nice one , Elsevier: A multinational journal giant is understood to be courting vice- chancellors in an effort to win their support for an a...

One of the more laughable reasons that traditional science publishers cite in their attempts to rubbish open access is that it's somehow...

I've noted before that Microsoft and Elsevier are, well, shall we say, kindred spirits. As Peter Suber observes , they're going to...

As I've mentioned , getting OA to US-funded research is proving incredibly difficult. Here's one reason why : In a list of Sen. Jam...

I often witter on about open access , assuming people know what I'm talking about. But if you'd like a little historical background...

By some measures, the medical publishing world has met the advent of the Internet with a shrug, sticking to its time-honored revenue model o...

For all its faults, lovingly detailed in this blog, Elsevier seems slowly to be getting the hang of this Internet stuff: About Google/Goog...

It's always a sign that you're winning when the opposition start getting seriously desperate in their tactics. Here's a fine ex...

I've sometimes made the comparison that Elsevier stands to open access in much the same way that Microsoft does to open source. But as ...

Talking of Microsoft, I see that my old chums at Reed Elsevier (disclosure: I used to work there a long, long time ago) are cosying up to ...

The news that the Wellcome Trust has reached an agreement with three publishers of scientific journals to allow Wellcome-funded research pub...