{"id":5995,"date":"2012-01-23T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=5995"},"modified":"2012-01-23T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T02:00:18","slug":"the-cost-of-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2012\/01\/23\/the-cost-of-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nTim Gowers has put up a new\u00a0pledge website against Elsevier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For many years, academics have protested against the business practices of Elsevier. If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they radically change how they operate, then you can do so by filling in your details in the box below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why should we boycott Elsevier? We’ve\u00a0blogged before<\/a>\u00a0about Elsevier and highlighted their support of SOPA<\/a>. They’ve also supported and lobbied for\u00a0PIPA<\/a> and the Research Works Act<\/a>.\u00a0As Aram commented<\/a> on Lance Fortnow’s blog, support for one or more of these is a very direct assertion that you oppose open research and the advancement of knowledge in favor of keeping it behind paywalls and protecting profits. That alone is reason enough, but if you want a few more reasons, go read Tim Gowers’ discussion<\/a>\u00a0of their heinous practice of “bundling” a few high-quality journals together with a bunch of low quality journals and forcing libraries to buy the whole package at\u00a0exorbitant\u00a0prices.
\nWhile you may disagree with choosing such a specific target as Elsevier when many of the problems are endemic to scientific publishing, this is as good a place as any to start, and it can serve as a wake up call to other publishers like Springer that also bundle or to other publishers that supported SOPA et al<\/em>.
\nIf you are interested in supporting the boycott, then we’ve helpfully compiled a list\u00a0of every Elsevier journal in computer science<\/a>, physics<\/a> and mathematics<\/a>\u00a0to help you stick to your pledge. Fortunately in our field there are many strong alternatives, so we don’t have to put our academic careers at risk by publishing in inferior journals while adhering to the boycott.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Gowers has put up a new\u00a0pledge website against Elsevier. For many years, academics have protested against the business practices of Elsevier. If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they radically change how they operate, then you can do so by filling in your details in … <\/p>\n

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