The UK government has come to view publisher pay walls to research as unhealthy and has let academic publishers know that they will make freely available online the publicly-funded research the publishers currently charge for. This has led some to suggest that this move could affect Elsevier’s profits by as much as 60%.
“One fed-up mathematician”
January 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Just minutes after posting A call to stop volunteering, this post popped up in the MSL mailbox. Fields Medal winner Timothy Gowers calling for a boycott of Elsevier. So far, over 1900 academics agree.
A call to stop volunteering
January 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Having grown aggravated at the giant publishing house Elsevier and at the ever increasing cost-per-page of their academic journals, George Washington University’s Henry Farrell, in the Crooked Timbers blog, gives a run down on his reasons for faculty to stop working for Elsevier journals for free.
For a better understanding of how prices of Elsevier journals have increased over the past few years, take a look at this table created by Ulf Rehmann, Fakultät für Mathematik of the Universität Bielefeld in Germany.
