Linda Cicero, At What Cost?, Stanford Magazine, June 2004. How the serials pricing crisis looks from Stanford. Excerpt: "The Faculty Senate approved a resolution that encourages faculty and University libraries to support 'affordable' scholarly journals. It calls on the libraries to refuse bundled subscription plans and to scrutinize the pricing of for-profit journals in general, and 'those published by Elsevier in particular.' Finally, the four-part resolution encourages senior faculty to stop writing for or reviewing articles in journals that 'engage in exploitive or exorbitant pricing.' Some senior faculty have already taken action on their own. Falkow, a former president of the 40,000-member American Society for Microbiology, stopped reviewing articles for a journal that was acquired by Elsevier four years ago. 'Their response [was] to imply that I am senile!' he told the Faculty Senate. Donald Knuth, a professor emeritus of computer science, says he and the entire editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms voted to resign from that Elsevier publication because 'we came to the unanimous conclusion that it was wrong to continue the way we were going.' He will help launch a new scholarly journal, ACM Transactions on Algorithms, within the next few months." (Thanks to George Porter.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/16/2004 11:17:00 PM.
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.
