The Big Elsevier Boycottathon

["Mark Witton" <Mark.Witton@port.ac.uk>]

Hi chaps,

It seems that Elsevier is becoming less and less popular with
scientists every day: almost 3000 scientists (including some
palaeontologists) have now declared their intent to never publish in
their journals via a petition online. Many have also vowed to never
perform peer review or editorial work for them, either. Given that
Elsevier publish a number of palaeo journals, this could have some
impact on palaeo publications. Details at: 

http://thecostofknowledge.com/ 

And a report from Science:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/thousands-of-scientists-vow-to-b.html?ref=em


Of course, there's lots of reading to be had in recent SV:POW! posts,
too (see
http://svpow.wordpress.com/category/stinkin-mammals/stinkin-publishers/).

Mark



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