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by Rick Mason
Tag Archives: Elsevier
Wiley Inflexibility
A post on the SERIALST list yesterday by Linda Hulbert, Associate Director of Collection Management and Services at the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library in St. Paul, Minnesota details one library’s response to contractual conditions being imposed by Wiley. I found it interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Libraries, Licensing, Online Databases, Online Services
Tagged Acquisitions, Associate Director, Diane Conroy, Director of Collection Management and Services, Elsevier, John Wiley and Sons, Linda Hulbert, Minneapolis, Minnesota, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, online content, online journal content, pain, print +online, representative, Rome, single president, St. Paul, the Elsevier, University of St. Thomas, USD, vendors, Wiley
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More Elsevier Questions
Was the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine incident an isolated case, or is it the first of several Elsevier journals that only appear to be legit? Michael Hansen, CEO Of Elsevier’s Health Sciences Division, issued a statement today … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Ethics, Medical, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, Australia, Bill Hooker, CEO, Director, Elsevier, Elsevier Inc, Excerpta Medica, Google, Hester Kuipers, Jonathan Rochkind, Medical Communications for Exerpta Medica, Michael Hansen, Of Elsevier's Health Sciences Division, pharmaceutical clients, Program Director
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Merck, Elsevier, and Ethics
Ever hear of the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine? Sounds official, as well as medically specific. Did you know it was published by Elsevier? That is is Peer Reviewed? And that it published an article on the effectiveness … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Medical, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged as well as medically specific, Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, Elsevier, Ethics, FDA, journals, Official, peer review, Periodicals, promotional tool, Publishing
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SciTopics
Add another “knowledge-sharing resource” to your reference grab-bag: SciTopics, a free, searchable collection of over 600 science topic (hence Scitopics) pages, has just been officially lauched by Elsevier after a lengthy beta. This is one of those resources that is … Continue reading
Elsevier’s Intermediate Print Copy ILL Policy
Kind of an interesting post on Open Access News over the weekend. It seems that the license requirements for Elsevier’s electronic journals include printing a copy of the article, then scanning the article, before a library can provide that article … Continue reading
Posted in ILL, Libraries, Licensing, Online Databases, Periodicals
Tagged Elsevier, Illinois
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Follow-up: Elsevier and the arms business
A couple of months ago I wrote a post about the publishing company Reed Elsevier and their involvement in the world arms trade. Editors and writers from several of their journals, including The Lancet, were arguing that it was unethical … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Medical, News
Tagged Elsevier, Reed Elsevier
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Elsevier and the arms business
Reed Elsevier, the European publishing corporation behind over 15,000 journals, is being challenged by one of them, The Lancet, in regards to its commercial involvement in the arms trade. This connects to libraries in several ways: subscriptions to many print … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Medical, News, Periodicals, Politics
Tagged Elsevier, Endeavor, Forbes;, online access, owner, Reed Elsevier, United Kingdom
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