Meanwhile We, For Once, Stand Up And Say 3 Cheers For Lexis In China

Credit where credit is due, well done Lexis for sticking it to the man – let’s hope they stick the course.

 

The South China Post reports

An employee of US-based LexisNexis said its service had been shut down in mainland China since March because it refused to comply with similar requests from the authorities to protect the integrity of its global database. Now, mainland Chinese users must use a virtual private network to access academic journals on LexisNexis.

“We can’t just mess up our database because of an individual nation’s requests,” the staff member, who is based in Hong Kong, said.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2107419/cambridge-university-press-pulls-sensitive-journal