In today's Chronicle of Higher Education, Andrea Foster describes how Elsevier has revised its article-retraction policy in response to criticism from researchers and librarians. Under the new policy, most retracted articles will remain online but with a new watermark and links to an explanation of the reasons for the retraction (e.g. multiple publication, plagiarism, fraudulent data, false statement of authorship). When defamation or health risks force Elsevier to remove the article from its database, searchers will still find the author's name, the article's title, and an explanation that the text has been removed for legal reasons.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/10/2003 02:35:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
