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Elsevier Faces Tough Questions About Its Business Model During Library and Publishing Conference

Edsurge

And Elsevier, the for-profit scholarly communications giant that many librarians and researchers love to hate, will never go away. The daylong program kicked off with a riveting one-on-one conversation between Kevin Guthrie, ITHAKA’s president, and Youngsuk “YS” Chi, the chairman of Elsevier. It is a collaborative product,” she said.)

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Elsevier Elsevier is another reputable academic publisher that offers various open access resources for researchers, authors, and academic institutions. Elsevier offers overs 600 fully open access journals where researchers can publish or access peer-review articles. Some of these materials are accessible for free.

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Register for the Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - Plus, Some Accepted Sessions Are Online!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She is the author of the book Emerging Library Technologies: It's Not Just for Geeks (Elsevier, 2018). Her forthcoming book on Drones in Libraries will be available in July 2020 (Elsevier). Ida peer reviews technology-related book proposals for Elsevier. Ida has published numerous articles on emerging technologies.

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Will 'Publish or Perish' Become 'Clicks or Canned'? The Rise of Academic Social Networks

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Mendeley started as an open-access research network, and some researchers balked when publishing giant Elsevier purchased the site in 2013. I wonder, will research be dictated by big trends instead of actual societal needs or individual interests? It’ll be interesting to see what happens.”.

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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She is the author of the book Emerging Library Technologies: It's Not Just for Geeks (Elsevier, 2018). Her forthcoming book on Drones in Libraries will be available in July 2020 (Elsevier). Ida peer reviews technology-related book proposals for Elsevier. Ida has published numerous articles on emerging technologies.

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Inspire to learn

Learning with 'e's

What should we make it all, and do we consider these new trends threats or opportunities? The big four publishers - Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis and Springer - are making huge profits worldwide from the goodwill of academics. I plan to discuss our possible responses to this. I'm not the only one.

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An Idea for the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative

Iterating Toward Openness

The overwhelming majority of research on cancer is owned by publishers of academic journals like Elsevier and Springer. More specifically, publishers own the copyright to the research articles that report the results of the research funded by governments, foundations, and corporations. Even at $100 per article the number is only $300M.