The Association for Medical Education and Elsevier has joined hands for organizing a 48 hr medical education Hackathon, August 25, at Europe aiming at initiation new solutions linked to the challenges faced by the medical education field.
Virgin Galactic successfully launched its first paying customers to space, marking a significant milestone in the private spaceflight industry. The Italian Air Force officers aboard the VSS Unity spacecraft experienced weightlessness at an altitude of 52.9 miles. The mission, named Galactic 01, began with the release of the rocket-powered plane from a carrier aircraft. After […]
Alexandra Elbakyan a23-year-old student of Kazakhstan University has created Sci-Hub, a digital repository housing copies of 64.5 million scientific journal articles. In 2016, the website claimed to services over 200,000 requests per day. Elsevier has filed a case against her as 97.3 percent journal articles stored behind all paywalls are present on sci-hub.org. Sci-Hub is […]
The clash between the University of California and Reed Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of academic journals, can seem almost trivial. UC is paying almost $11 million this year for subscriptions to some 1,500 Elsevier journals, that is petty less when compared against the university’s core budget of $9.3 billion. The major issue separating the […]