Thursday, February 9, 2012

Taking control of publishing

The issue of scientists disgruntlement with commercial publishers has made it into The Economist. The excellent article The Price of Information describes a campaign started by mathematicians to boycott Elsevier journals.

I thank Seth Olsen for bringing the article to my attention.

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