Elsevier, Other Publishers Hit With Peer Review Services Lawsuit

Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer NV, and John Wiley & Sons Inc. are among six publishers facing a new suit alleging they engaged in a wide-reaching antitrust scheme that diverts billions of taxpayer dollars away from scientific research.

Plaintiff Lucina Uddin, a scholar and scientist, claims the publishers violated antitrust laws by agreeing not to compensate scholars for peer review services, according to a proposed class action filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. In doing so, funding that would have paid for critical scientific research has instead lined the pockets of the publishers, ...