A Techonomic Revolution is Brewing in Scientific Publishing - Forbes

Two weeks ago, we pointed you to reports that Dutch scientific publisher Elsevier had helped induce two U.S. Representatives to introduce legislation in Congress that would shut down open access to taxpayer-funded scientific research. Now, in protest, more than 3,400 scientists have signed on to a boycott of the company, which publishes around 2,000 journals including well known titles Cell and The Lancet... The campaign supports predictions David Kirkpatrick made  in a Forbes cover story last September, ‘Social Power and the Coming Corporate Revolution...’ A story, ‘The Price of Information: Academics Are Starting to Boycott a Big Publisher of Journals,’ in the February 4 print edition of the Economist, reports how a blog post by prize-winning mathematician Timothy Gowers incited a fellow mathematician to create the online protest that is capturing signatures like wildfire...”