28
мая
2012

Бойкот издательства Elsevier

Получил из Европейской Академии такое письмо:

The Section Committee of the Physics and Engineering section, at its meeting in GSI Darmstadt, on May 25, 2012 has decided to ask all section members to join the initiative of a group of 33 mathematicians aiming for a boycott of Elsevier and to join the issued declaration: 'The cost of Knowledge', which aims for real open access to the readers of scientific articles, without asking unreasonable payments from the authors or their institutions.

The action requests individual scientists to refrain from free editing and refereeing services and also from publication of articles if possible, in Elsevier (and other overpriced) journals. The action has achieved visible successes already. <..> At present 12000 scientists have joined the action.

Я подписался там сам и призываю других. Для России цены на журналы Elsevier вообще запредельные.

Заодно поучимся, как надо организовывать протест и сбор подписей.