It started earlier this month, when Elsevier sent open access forum Academia.edu 2,800 takedown notices for articles it owns the copyright to within a couple of weeks. Academia.edu is a research ...

The academic publisher Elsevier last week filed a complaint against two web sites who it accuses of pirating its academic articles and other publications and offering them up to the world for free.

Elsevier announces that the article "Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize," by Gilles Eric Séralini et al. has been retracted by the journal ...