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

“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...’”