Riled up by Elsevier's take-downs? Time to embrace open access journals
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 09:01
in Mathematics & Economics
The publishing giant Elsevier owns much of the world's academic knowledge, in the form of article copyright. In the past few weeks it has stepped up enforcement of its property rights, issuing "take-down notices" to Academia.edu, where many researchers post PDFs of their articles.