Reacting against the taken measure
Iranian universities boycott Elsevier
27 مهر 1390 17:09
Since Elsevier publishing company's website banned the access of Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) as well as Malek-Ashtar University to its scientific data, Iranian universities boycotted the scientific website.
IBNA: Following UN's new ratifications for boycotting Iran, Elsevier banned the access of Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) as well as Malek-Ashtar University to its scientific data; while according to international ratifications free and equal access to released data is a natural right.
Elsevier is a publishing company which publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere.
Elsevier was founded in 1880. Leading products include journals such as The Lancet and Cell, books such as Gray's Anatomy, the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, the Trends and Current Opinion series of journals, and the online citation database Scopus.
The company publishes 250,000 articles a year in 2,000 journals. Its archives contain seven million publications. Total yearly downloads amount to 240 million.
Chancellor of the University of Tehran Farhad Rahbar believes that presentation of scientific articles to the foreigners is similar to building a scientific palace with Iranian scholar's bricks; however the building will tumble down with us boycotting it.
Elsevier has two distinct operating divisions: Science & Technology and Health Sciences. Products and services of both include electronic and print versions of journals, textbooks and reference works and cover the health, life, physical and social sciences.
The center releases major reference works such as Gray's Anatomy, Nelson Pediatrics.
Sharif University of Technology, as a leading university in Iran and the world, used to cooperate with the center. The university's magazine named Scientia Iranica was released in Elsevier's website; a reason which promoted the university's rank in the world.
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