Elsevier Announces New Procedures for Retracting Online Articles

Gary “Visit The ResourceShelf” Price sent over This Chronicle of Higher Education Story that says Elsevier Science announced new procedures last week for handling journal articles in its databases that are the product of plagiarism or other research misconduct. Librarians and scholars have complained that the Anglo-Dutch publisher was jeopardizing the integrity of scholarship by removing articles from its databases with little explanation.