Elsevier’s Vanishing Act

Jen Young sent over This Chronicle of Higher Education story on Elsevier Science quietly withdrawing dozens of journal articles from ScienceDirect since at least January 2000, often providing no details as to its reasons.

Elsevier says it has expunged no more than 30 journal articles from ScienceDirect. That total represents only a fraction of the millions of articles in Elsevier\’s database.