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Petition Targeting Elsevier's Business Practices Begins to Snowball - Library Journal

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Petition Targeting Elsevier's Business Practices Begins to Snowball Library Journal Timothy Gowers, of the University of Cambridge and a winner of the Fields Medal, criticized Elsevier on his blog on January 21 for charging exorbitantly high prices, obliging libraries to purchase either a large bundle of journals (including ones they ... Scientific publishingThe Economist Kiwis join global journal boycottNzweek Scientists Fight For Open Access For ResearchCare2.com (blog) The Bookseller -Discover Magazine (blog) -Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog) all 16 news articles »

Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices - Science AAAS

Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)

Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices Science AAAS Tyler Neylon, a blogger and Ph.D. student in math at New York University took Gowers's cue and created the Web site 2 days later. Many scientists and librarians consider Amsterdam-based Elsevier, which publishes over 2500 journals in all fields of ... A Techonomic Revolution is Brewing in Scientific PublishingForbes Tiptoeing Toward the Tipping Point | Peer to Peer ReviewLibrary Journal As Journal Boycott Grows, Elsevier Defends Its PracticesChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) all 8 news articles »

Blog blast births boffin boycott of publisher Elsevier - Register

Blog blast births boffin boycott of publisher Elsevier Register British mathematician Tim Gowers kicked-started the campaign with a scorching blog post outlining numerous complaints against the publisher, which sells over 2000 academic journals such as The Lancet and Cell. Gowers claims that Elsevier charges ... and more »

Is the Open Science Revolution For Real? - Wired News

Is the Open Science Revolution For Real? Wired News (This is what happens long-term anyway, even with papers published in peer-reviewed journals.) Much of that can be done informally, in blog comments, separate blog posts, responding papers, and so on. But two new tools, PaperCritic and Kleenk, ...

If you want to write your feelings out, do it online. Public journals are even ... - Slate Magazine (blog)

Slate Magazine (blog)

If you want to write your feelings out, do it online. Public journals are even ... Slate Magazine (blog) Public journals are even better for teenagers' mental health than the traditional private pad of paper used to store personal thoughts, according to a new study. Teenagers who use blogs to share their thoughts about social stress find the activity ... and more »