How one publisher is stopping academics from sharing their research
One of the world’s largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars’ research. Elsevier is a commercial firm that publishes some of the leading journals in many academic fields. In recent weeks, it has sent takedown notices to the academic social media network Academia.edu, as well as to the University of Calgary, the University of California-Irvine, and Harvard University… the takedown campaign goes against a long-standing industry practice in which journal publishers look the other way when academics post their own work. Elsevier’s new hard-line posture is likely to intensify a debate over the future of academic publishing.
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by Andrea Peterson, The Washington Post.