Scientists and scholars boycott Elsevier over bad business practices and copyright maximalism - Boing Boing

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

“Over 1,000 academics and scholars have signed a petition against science-publishing titan Elsevier, taking issue with the company's exploitative and abusive dealings with its writers, and with its support of laws that hinder good scientific collaboration, like SOPA and the Research Works Act. The signatories vow to withhold their work from Elsevier journals ‘unless they radically change how they operate...’”

Link:

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/scientists-boycott-elsevier-ov.html

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.comment oa.usa oa.legislation oa.negative oa.rwa oa.nih oa.advocacy oa.signatures oa.petitions oa.boycotts oa.elsevier oa.copyright

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 15:15

Date published:

02/05/2012, 13:55