This blog post was written jointly by Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director of COAR, and Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC, and is also available on the SPARC website. September 6, 2017 Like many others in the scholarly community, we …
Following in the footsteps of other editors and authors, the six editors and thirty-one editorial board members of the Elsevier journal Lingua resigned on October 27, 2015, in protest of Elsevier’s practices. The Lingua editors argued that the journal’s price …
In the last two weeks, over 1600 individuals and organizations from 52 countries around the world have signed a statement opposing Elsevier’s new article sharing and hosting policy, underscoring that many in the scholarly community do not support the new policy. The policy imposes unacceptably long embargo periods …
On Wednesday May 20, we published a joint Statement against Elsevier’s sharing policy. There are now close to 700 signatories to that statement after just one week. In response to the statement, there have been a number of comments on the COAR website, including a …
May 20, 2015 Global coalition of organizations denounce the policy and urge Elsevier to revise it Washington, DC and Göttingen, Germany – Elsevier’s new sharing and hosting policy represents a significant obstacle to the dissemination and use of research knowledge, …
