Elsevier's Vanishing Act

To the dismay of scholars, the publishing giant quietly purges articles from its database

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

Elsevier Science, it seems, is working on a disappearing act, and that has university librarians fuming.

Take the engineering article by Nikitas Assimakopoulos that was published in April 2000 in ISA Transactions, an Elsevier Science quarterly journal.

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