Elsevier
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| December 2024 | The editorial board of Journal of Human Evolution, including emeritus editors and all but one associate editor, resigned, citing fundamental incompatibility with the journal's ethos, including issues with pricing, editorial board interference, lack of support, and disruptive use of generative AI in submissions. |
| September 2024 | Lucina Uddin, a neuroscience professor at UCLA, filed a proposed class-action antitrust lawsuit against Elsevier and five other academic journal publishers, alleging collusion in manuscript competition and denial of payment for peer review services. |
| 2023 | Elsevier and DEAL reached a tentative agreement on a publish and read model, potentially effective until 2028 if 70% of eligible institutions participate. |
| 2023 | Elsevier reports a pre-tax profit of £2.295 billion with an adjusted operating margin of 33.1%, highlighting its substantial financial performance despite ongoing criticism from researchers. |
| 2023 | The editorial board of NeuroImage resigned and started a new journal due to Elsevier's unwillingness to reduce article-processing charges of $3,450 per article, which they considered 'unethical and unsustainable'. |
| 2023 | The editorial board of Design Studies resigned over Elsevier's plans to increase publications seven-fold, appointment of an external Editor-in-Chief without consultation, and changing the journal's scope without consulting the editorial team or parent society. |
| 2023 | The International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, published by Elsevier, was criticized for desk-rejecting a submitted article primarily because it did not cite enough articles from the same journal, highlighting problematic academic publishing practices. |
| 2022 | Elsevier and the University of Michigan established an agreement to support open access publishing for authors. |
| 2022 | Elsevier publishes over 600,000 articles annually across more than 2,800 journals, expanding its significant academic publishing footprint. |
| 2021 | The Green and Sustainable Chemistry Challenge was renamed to the Elsevier Foundation Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge, with two annual prizes of €25,000 each awarded to entrepreneurs creating projects to combat climate change. |
| January 2021 | Elsevier finally joined the Initiative for Open Citations after previously declining to participate, following the data becoming available with an Open Data Commons license in Microsoft Academic. |
| 2020 | Elsevier effectively ended the relationship between the Journal of Asian Economics and the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies by offering a terminal contract to the ACAES-appointed editor, Calla Wiemer, resulting in a majority of the editorial board resigning. |
| 2020 | Plan S open-access initiative required researchers receiving certain grants to publish in open-access journals, challenging Elsevier's traditional publishing model. |
| 2020 | Nine Elsevier journals had their journal impact factor suspended from Journal Citation Reports due to unusual levels of self-citation, as part of a broader sanction affecting 34 journals in total. |
| 2020 | Elsevier became the largest academic publisher, controlling approximately 16% of the academic publishing market with more than 3,000 journals. |
| June 2020 | Elsevier faced a significant academic challenge when the Ukrainian government cancelled subscriptions for all universities in the country due to a dispute over journal indexing, specifically regarding journals from 'occupied territories'. |
| June 2020 | MIT announced it would no longer pay for access to new Elsevier articles. |
| June 17 2020 | Elsevier announced the retraction of a 2012 article by J. Philippe Rushton and Donald Templer from the journal Personality and Individual Differences, following criticism and a petition for its controversial claims about skin color, aggression, and sexuality. |
| April 2020 | University of North Carolina decided not to renew its bundled Elsevier package, citing unaffordable costs of $2.6 million annually. |
| January 1 2020 | The French Academy of Sciences terminated its publishing relationship with Elsevier, discontinuing the publication of 7 journals (Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences) and switching to Centre Mersenne. |
| 2019 | Researchers submitted over two million research papers to Elsevier-based publications, with over 22,000 editors managing peer review and selecting approximately 500,000 articles across more than 2,500 journals. |
| 2019 | Elsevier published 49,000 free open access articles and 370 full open access journals, with 1,900 of its journals offering hybrid open access options. |
| 2019 | Elsevier reported a revenue growth of 3.9% from 2018, with an underlying growth of 2% at constant currency, continuing its financial expansion. |
| 2019 | The entire editorial board of Elsevier's Journal of Informetrics resigned over the publisher's open-access policies and founded an open-access journal called Quantitative Science Studies. |
| 2019 | The French Couperin consortium signed a 4-year contract with Elsevier, despite significant criticism from the scientific community. |
| November 2019 | Negotiations between Elsevier and the Bibsam Consortium concluded, resulting in Sweden obtaining reading access to Elsevier journals and open access publishing rights for all its researchers' articles. |
| July 10 2019 | Elsevier began restricting access to new paywalled articles and approximately 5% of paywalled articles published before 2019. |
| March 2019 | Norway's government, representing 44 academic and research institutions, terminated negotiations with Elsevier over subscription deals due to disagreements about open-access policies and high access costs. |
| February 28 2019 | University of California issued a press release announcing termination of subscriptions with Elsevier due to disagreements over open access and publishing fees. |
| February 15 2019 | Kumsal Bayazit was appointed as CEO of Elsevier, marking a significant leadership change for the company. |
| 2018 | Elsevier continued lobbying efforts against open access policies with UK Research and Innovation, opposing broader public access to research publications. |
| 2018 | Elsevier sealed a 5-year deal with CRUI (Conference of Italian University Rectors), covering academic publishing for Italian universities from 2018 to 2022, despite significant protests from the scientific community about issues like cost increases and 'double dipping' practices. |
| 2018 | Elsevier pledged to make 30% of research published by Dutch researchers in their journals open access by this year, following negotiations with the Association of Universities in the Netherlands. |
| December 2018 | Hungarian consortium terminated negotiations with Elsevier and did not renew their subscription. |
| December 19 2018 | Max Planck Society (MPS) announced they would not renew their subscription agreement with Elsevier after 31 December 2018, representing 14,000 scientists across 84 research institutes. |
| November 2018 | The 'The Cost of Knowledge' petition against Elsevier grew to over 17,000 academic signatories. |
| October 2018 | A complaint was filed against Elsevier with the European Commission, alleging anticompetitive practices. The European Commission ultimately decided not to investigate the complaint. |
| September 2018 | UBS advised investors to sell Elsevier (RELX) stocks, citing potential financial impact from Plan S open-access initiative, which could affect 5-10% of scientific funding and potentially force Elsevier to reduce pricing. |
| July 2018 | Complimentary open access for German universities to Elsevier journals ended after ongoing negotiations. |
| June 30 2018 | Swedish universities' existing access to Elsevier articles expires, following the non-renewal of the consortium contract. |
| May 2018 | The Bibsam Consortium decided not to renew their contract with Elsevier, citing high costs and lack of progress towards open-access publishing model for Swedish universities and research institutes. |
| March 2018 | Florida State University faculty canceled its $2 million subscription to a bundle of Elsevier journals, deciding to purchase journal access individually starting in 2019. |
| March 2018 | Hungarian Electronic Information Service National Programme began negotiations with Elsevier for 2019 subscriptions, seeking a read-and-publish deal. |
| January 2018 | Confirmation of a deal reached between Elsevier and the Finnish research community, resolving the previous disputes over subscription fees and access. |
| 2017 | Elsevier was confirmed as a subcontractor for the European Union's Open Science Monitor, which was subsequently criticized for potential conflicts of interest. |
| 2017 | Elsevier was discovered continuing the practice of selling open-access articles that were meant to be freely available, maintaining its controversial approach to article access. |
| 2017 | Over 70 university libraries in South Korea initiated a contract boycott against Elsevier, challenging the publisher's academic publishing practices and pricing models. |
| 2017 | Elsevier, as part of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing, brought a legal case against ResearchGate regarding unauthorized article uploads, challenging the platform's sharing of copyrighted research articles without publisher consent. |
| August 2017 | At least 185 German institutions had cancelled their contracts with Elsevier journals. |
| July 2017 | An additional 13 German institutions announced cancellation of their Elsevier journal subscriptions. |
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