Missed this when it came out during holiday season:
'MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier' by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/t...
#evilsevier #academicpublishing 🧪📖
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier
Missed this when it came out during holiday season:
'MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier' by @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier
„From the moment scholars submit manuscripts for publication, the Publisher Defendants behave as though the scientific advancements set forth in the manuscripts are their property, to be shared only if the Publisher Defendants grant permission.“
https://dailynous.com/2024/09/13/journal-publishers-sued-on-antitrust-grounds/
Lucina Uddin, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the named plaintiff in an antitrust lawsuit against six publishers of academic journals: Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, Sage, Taylor and Francis Group, and Springer. The lawsuit accuses the publishers of collusion in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, stating
"I would not normally expect over 30 academics to totally agree about anything and [Elsevier] might like to reflect on that."
shots fired!
On the resignation of the entire editorial board and editors of a design journal:
https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-future-of-design-studies-update
the #Evilsevier scandal continues :(
the editor-in-chief and editorial board have resigned their positions with Design Studies - and many are now withdrawing their papers from review
https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-future-of-design-studies-update
Just in case you ever wondered what a "cooperation" with #Elsevier looks like:
"Elsevier publishes many journals 'in cooperation' with different societies and these aim to bring reciprocal benefits; however this does not give those organisations a role in the appointment of journal editors."
https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-future-of-design-studies-journal
#Elsevier to scholarly society: "increase your publication volume 7-fold, or we'll close your journal down":
https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-future-of-design-studies-journal
I've seen many of the reasons why #Elsevier is called #Evilsevier by virtually everybody.
But this really takes the cake:
https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-future-of-design-studies-journal
If you ever needed a single, 5min explanation of one of the many reasons why we need to replace academic journals,, this is the one.
Here are the other reasons:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees
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