In yesterday's Chronicle of Higher Education, Andrea Foster reports (accessible only to subscribers) on the call for an Elsevier boycott, previously reported on SOAF. Peter Walter and Keith Yamamoto, two biologists at the University of California at San Franciso, have called for a worldwide boycott of six journals from Elsevier's Cell Press on the ground that their prices are prohibitive. Walter and Yamamoto ask scientists not to submit articles to the journals, referee articles for them, or serve on their editorial boards. Quoting Walter and Yamamoto: "We can all think of better ways to spend our time than providing free services to support a publisher that values profit above its academic mission." Foster notes that the boycott may steer some high-quality articles from Cell Press journals to PLoS Biology.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/22/2003 09:39:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
