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Elsevier published 6 fake journals
Sun, 05/10/2009 - 14:56 — sanjoScientific publisher Elsevier admitted it has brought out six "journals" between 2000 and 2005 that were sponsored by pharmaceutical companies and looked like peer-reviewed journals.
Statement From Michael Hansen, CEO of Elsevier's Health Sciences Division, regarding the issue can be accessed from its official website
The fraud was brought out to light by The Australian.
Free Software, Free Society
Sun, 11/30/2008 - 11:17 — sanjoSecond International Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture starts on 9th December 2008 at Mascot Convention Center, Thiruvananthapuram.
Many celebrities of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) and Open Access (OA) movements will make their presence in this conference. To name a few of them are Richard Matthew Stallman, Jimmy Wales, Eben Moglen, Subbiah Arunachalam and Adam Arvidsson. The Conference will have three tracks - Technology, Culture and Policy. Some of the highlights of the event are Install Fest and Repository, Copy Left - Open Access, Open Movie Fest, Malayalam Computing, Scientific Computing, General Word Processing Applications, Games and Educational Software, Open Hardware and Computing for Disabled.
