Competition complaint lodged against Elsevier

« Two academics have demanded the European Commission investigate the academic publisher Elsevier for what they say is a breach of EU competition rules that is harming research.

Palaeontologist Jon Tennant and neuroscientist Björn Brembs, who are both advocates for making research results openly available, say the academic publishing market “is clearly not functioning well” in an official complaint about Elsevier’s parent company RELX Group. (…) »