Russia is defeated on all fronts, including science.
15 of the world's largest publishers of scientific journals suspended sales of products and services for scientific organizations in Russia and Belarus in connection with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine with the support of Belarus.
At the same time, they decided not to punish Russian and Belarusian scientists directly: publishing houses will continue to publish their articles.
Restrictions were imposed by the following scientific publishers: ACS Publications, Apple Academic Press, Brill, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, De Gruyter, Elsevier, Emerald Publishing, Future Science Group, IOP Publishing, Karger Publishers, Springer Nature, The Geological Society, The Institution and Technology , Thieme Group and Wolters Kluwer.
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“This statement is a serious challenge, as Russia accounts for only 2.5% of world scientific output. And thus 97.5% of information for us is blocked. At the same time, I have no doubt that an adequate answer to this challenge will be found, “- commented boycott Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Khokhlov.
According to Khokhlov , in Russia will also block the reference databases Web of Science and Scopus.
Russia has suspended Britain . At the same time, the kingdom promised to allocate almost $ 4 million to scientists from Ukraine.
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