[net-gold] PUBLISHERS PUBLISHING AND PUBLICATIONS: SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices
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PUBLISHERS PUBLISHING AND PUBLICATIONS: SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:
Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices
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Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices
by Jop de Vrieze
1 February 2012, 12:11 PM
Science Insider
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/
2012/02/thousands-of-scientists-vow-to-b.html
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http://tinyurl.com/6q9tu9v
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A movement to boycott scientific publishing giant Elsevier because of the
high price of its journals is rapidly gathering steam. Nine days after it
started, more than 2600 scientistsincluding several Field Medalistshave
signed a petition at thecostofknowledge.com in which they pledge not to
publish papers in Elsevier's journals, nor referee other researchers'
studies, or do other types of editorial work for the company.
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The petition, which has created a buzz on researchers' blogs and Twitter,
isn't just an attack on Elsevier, its organizers say, but also an attempt
to show the scientific community that it can help change the publishing
business themselves to increase access to their studies.
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The Cost of Knowledge was initiated by Field Medalist and blogger Timothy
Gowers, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge in the United
Kingdom, who says he has been boycotting Elsevier himself for many years.
While he was writing a lengthy blog post on Elsevier's practices on 21
January, he initially thought he'd simply make that policy public. "Only
while I was writing did it occur to me that it would be good to have a
place where everybody who wanted to could make a similar declaration, so I
mentioned that," he says. Tyler Neylon, a blogger and Ph.D. student in
math at New York University took Gowers's cue and created the Web site 2
days later.
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Many scientists and librarians consider Amsterdam-based Elsevier, which
publishes over 2500 journals in all fields of science, one of the villains
in the scientific publishing industry; its journals can cost up to $20,000
a year, while the company's profit margin in 2010 was 36%, according to an
annual report. The petition mentions three main gripes: the "exorbitantly
high prices" for the journals, the fact that many are sold as part of
'bundles' that include titles that libraries don't care for, and
Elsevier's support of measures such as the Research Works Act, a
controversial bill that would undo the National Institutes of Health's
"public access" policy.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Research Works Act
Google Scholar
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works+act%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=1%2C39&as_ylo=&as_vis=0
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2F1%2F2012&authuser=0
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