I’ve published in Elsevier journals (most recently a couple of papers that, thanks to the efforts of Paul Craze, editor of TREE, are “free” in the sense you can download the PDF for free), and I took part in the Elsevier Grand Challenge. I’m not a paying customer (but I do pay for some Internet services such as DropBox, BackBlaze, and Spotify, so it’s not that I won’t pay, it’s just that the service Mendeley charge for doesn’t interest me). Disclosure: I use Mendeley to manage 100,000’s of references, and use the API for various projects. Here’s some probably worthless speculation to add to the mix. I imagine a coin flip deep within the Elsevier Headquarters Cave, using a gold, custom-minted BUY OR SUE coin.īy the way, over here Zotero headquarters ( we welcome all Mendeley users to a truly open platform for research Oh FFS, nooooooo! MT Elsevier In Advanced Talks To Buy Mendeley For Around $100M via Dr Siouxsie Wiles January 17, 2013 The rumour that Elsevier is buying Mendeley has been greeted with a mixture of horror, anger, peppered with a few congratulations, I told you so’s, and touting for new customers:Įlsevier In Advanced Talks To Buy Mendeley For Around $100M To Beef Up In Social, Open Source Educ… by TechCrunch January 17, 2013 Roderic Page weighs in on his thoughts of what the future may hold. Given Elsevier’s less-than-trusted standing in the research community, questions are being asked of what this might mean for research communication, measurement, and commodification.
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Please visit week, TechCrunch reported that Elsevier, the multi-billion dollar publishing company, is in advanced talks to buy Mendeley, the free reference manager and academic social network site. The articles were published in widespread journal classifications, demonstrating the inter-disciplinary nature of climate change research: 54 percent of the articles were published in Elsevier’s Physical Sciences journals 22 percent in its Life Sciences journals 19 percent in its Social Sciences journals and 4 percent in its Health Sciences journals.Ī dedicated homepage has been created to help people easily access the articles, provide feedback and answer questions they may have. In total, 412 Elsevier journals have contributed 5,332 articles, all articles were published in 2019 or 2018. This is also a test-and-learn exercise for us to understand how we can provide seamless access to articles and support collaboration on Mendeley, and to see how popular providing content in this way proves to be.”Īll Elsevier’s proprietary journals, excluding its Society titles, were included in the search for articles on ‘Climate Change’.
“We hope that by making this latest research freely available, on our flagship platform for academic and scholarly collaboration, we can support researchers to carry out their important work. “We are also seeing lots of collaboration on climate change between researchers from different academic disciplines. “We’re seeing more researchers reading, discussing and citing climate change research on Mendeley,” said Gaby Appleton, Managing Director of Research Products at Elsevier. The articles are free to existing and new Mendeley users to download and read. Researchers will have permanent access to the articles once they have been downloaded. The articles will be available to download until the end of this year (December 31, 2019).