Elsevier

The Norwegian consortium for higher education and research organized by Unit,and global information analytics business Elsevier agreed to a pilot national license, providing Norwegian researchers with access to global academic research while making Norwegian research accessible through open access publishing. Read the press release

Education International just released a new report as part of their global response to the growing commercialisation and privatisation of education, Democratising Knowledge: a report on the scholarly publisher, Elsevier, by Dr. Jonathan Tennant. The report aims to provide the foundations for a critical study into Elsevier’s business model and practices. Go to the report

Researchers Prof. Björn Brembs and Prof. Johnathan Tennant made a formal complaint regarding RELX (Elsevier) and the wider scholarly publishing market to the EU competition authority. See the document at Zenodo