February 2020

UC libraries continue talks with research publisher Elsevier

S. Doukalli

UC libraries continue talks with research publisher Elsevier, enter new agreements AMANDA BRADFORD UC libraries have initiated open access t...

Elsevier

Mutinous librarians help drive change at Elsevier

S. Doukalli

A quiet revolution is sweeping the $20bn academic publishing market and its main operator Elsevier, partly driven by an unlikely group of re...

SCIE

How to Identify SCIE and Scopus Indexed journals?

S. Doukalli

When you wish to submit your research article in a journal. you have to select the target journal for your research area as well as the jour...

Elsevier

Interesting times in academic publishing

S. Doukalli

Interesting times in academic publishing In this post I want briefly to mention four current goings on in the world of academic publishing. ...

Elsevier

Another journal flips

S. Doukalli

Another journal flips There is widespread (even if not universal) agreement that something is deeply wrong with the current system of academ...

Chemistry

Scopus indexed journals in social science

S. Doukalli

Scopus indexed journals in social science Scopus indexed journals in subject area: Social Science Social Journals Indexed in Scopus: Source...

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