This week they added two more domains – sci-hub.ru and scihub.unblockit.kim.

Mendeley incorporates

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Who Owns Digital Science?

When is a Publisher not a Publisher? Cobbling Together the Pieces to Build a Workflow Business

Reflections on “Elsevier Acquires bepress”

this acquisition will position Elsevier as an increasingly dominant player in preprints, continuing its march to adopt and coopt open access.

The Open Publishing Revolution, Now Behind A Billion-Dollar Paywall

why I’m quitting Mendeley (and why my employer has nothing to do with it)

My thoughts on Mendeley/Elsevier & why I left to start PeerJ

Hello Again, 2006: The Economics of Reference Management Software

One of the world's largest science publishers, Elsevier, won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub, the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.

Althoughit cannot be taken for granted that the publication lists on RIDare error-free, these lists will probably be more reliable thantheautomatically generated lists (by Elsevier).

LSU v Elsevier – Paying Twice (or More) for Scholarship?

Elsevier is doing just that in their analysis of 20 years of global research from a gender perspective, published today

the steady stream of obscene amounts of money to a parasitic industry with orthogonal interests to scholarship

Elsevier continues its march into data analytics at a pace that should terrify anyone on the ground in HE

Dutch universities and Elsevier reach deal over open access

All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier’s policies on pricing and its refusal to convert the journal to an open-access publication that would be free online. As soon as January, when the departing editors’ noncompete contracts expire, they plan to start a new open-access journal to be called Glossa.”

competitively priced

as the world’s third largest open access publisher,

We founded Lingua 66 years ago.

transfer ownership of the journal to the collective of editors

transfer ownership of the journal to the collective of editors.

National governments are also weighing in on the issue. The UK government aims this April to make text-mining for non-commercial purposes exempt from copyright, allowing academics to mine any content they have paid for.

“Our plan is just to wait for the copyright exemption to come into law in the United Kingdom so we can do our own content-mining our own way, on our own platform, with our own tools,” says Mounce. “Our project plans to mine Elsevier’s content, but we neither want nor need the restricted service they are announcing here.”

some researchers feel that a dangerous precedent is being set. They argue that publishers wrongly characterize text-mining as an activity that requires extra rights to be granted by licence from a copyright holder, and they feel that computational reading should require no more permission than human reading. “The right to read is the right to mine,” says Ross Mounce of the University of Bath, UK, who is using content-mining to construct maps of species’ evolutionary relationships.

The academic publisher Elsevier has contributed to many U.S. Congressional representatives, pushing the Elsevier-supported Research Works Act, which among other things would have forbidden any effort by any federal agency to ensure taxpayer access to work financed by the federal government without permission of the publisher.