MIT Faculty Boycott Elsevier Journals

“Nearly twenty members of the MIT community have already signed a newly posted pledge to boycott Elsevier journals by refusing to publish, referee, or do editorial work ‘unless they radically change how they operate.’ The boycott was launched as a result a posting by Fields medal-winning mathematician Timothy Gowers in which he railed against Elsevier’s pricing practices and support of the Research Works Act. He suggested that a public website be created where others could join him in “refus(ing) to have anything to do with Elsevier journals from now on.” Such a website now exists, and lists (as of the time of this writing) eighteen members of the MIT community, including... Professor Kai von Fintel also signed the boycott, and recently made a similar public statement on his web site...”