I’m pleased to share my recent peer-review activity with Elsevier for Q1 2026.
🔬 Review History Highlights:
• 4 reviews completed
• 3 international journals
• Contributions to:
– Preventive Veterinary Medicine
– The Veterinary Journal
– Virology
I look forward to continuing to support the scientific community through rigorous, constructive, and timely reviews.
#PeerReview #ScientificResearch #VeterinaryMedicine #Virology #Elsevier #AcademicService
Haters vs lovers: kritisch kletsen over Extinction Rebellion
Update. While the #ThomsonReuters employee letter is not yet public, #Poynter quotes from it: "The detrimental actions of #ICE, and the #DHS’s lack of oversight and direct falsehoods regarding the situation in #Minnesota and other cities, makes us question if our investigative products and services are being used in accordance with our mission and values, as well as in accordance with the law and our nation’s constitution.”
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/law360-reuters-newsrooms-letter-against-ice-dhs/
The same article links to a similar letter from #RELX employees to management about a $22.1 million contract with ICE. RELX is the parent company of #LexisNexis and #Elsevier.
https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/law360-demand-letter.pdf
That letter is public. From the RELX employee letter: "We are deeply concerned that RELX is directly aiding the separation of families, the removal of children from schools and the death of individuals in detention centers."
RELX deleted a page from its FAQ, posted during the Biden administration, saying that its tools would not be used for these purposes. But here's a copy from the #WaybackMachine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230307061658/https://risk.lexisnexis.com/government/our-services-for-homeland-security
Today in a new low for Elsevier, the infamous academic publisher:
"Elsevier, the company that makes a lot of the compulsory textbooks for University, commissioned scientists to develop a new book binding glue designed to fail after 3 years, as they hated that there was a second hand market."
Planned obsolescence to quell the second hand market ... if confirmed – it's the sort of thing this company would do –, may they be hacked to oblivion.
TorrentFreak: Major Publishers Sue Anna’s Archive Over ‘Staggering’ Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction. “A coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, filed a new lawsuit against Anna’s Archive. The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating “staggering” levels of piracy. While the site’s owners are not likely to […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/10/torrentfreak-major-publishers-sue-annas-archive-over-staggering-copyright-infringement-seek-injunction/
TorrentFreak: Major Publishers Sue Anna’s Archive Over ‘Staggering’ Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction. “A coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevie…
Und genau das ist es, was die Ex-Verlage charakterisiert, die Umkehr des Datenflusses:
"die Daten fließen nur in eine Richtung, nämlich von der Wissenschaft zu Elsevier."
Als diese Überwachungskonzerne noch Verlage waren, war das noch die andere Richtung.
"#Datentracking bei Elsevier: Yuliya Fadeeva im Interview"
https://irights.info/artikel/datentracking-elsevier-yuliya-fadeeva-interview/32777
Mittlerweile macht, nach eigener Aussage, die Verlagstätigkeit nur noch einen Bruchteil des Umsatzes bei #Elsevier aus:
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2023/03/should-you-trust-elsevier/#comment-5670
Update. Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #Elsevier) with the false claim that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs.
https://www.journalofsurgicalresearch.com/article/S0022-4804(26)00045-4/abstract
I only have access to the abstract, not the full text. If I learn that the article acknowledges that no-APC OA (#DiamondOA) journals exist, and even outnumber APC-based OA journals, then I'll correct this post. But I'll still criticize the authors and editors for publishing a false claim in the abstract, namely, "Open access (OA) publishing…requires article processing charges (APCs)."
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