Protest agains Elsevier is growing
The protest against Elsevier continues and seems to gain momentum. There is now a dedicated web page where researchers working in any field can sign up to lend their support:
http://thecostofknowledge.com/
As of today, 10,284 individuals have already signed up (the list on the web page can be searched by name) and I have added my name as well. Elsevier is only one publisher that deserves criticism and boycott, of course. But it seems to be one of the worst for reasons that are explained in a nice article by Cambridge Mathematician and Field's medalist Timothy Gowers. A PDF can be accessed here:
http://gowers.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/elsevierstatementfinal.pdf
Macmillan Publishers Ltd, the publisher of the vanity journal Nature and its derivatives, would be another obvious choice (see the discussions at the University of California to boycott these journals).
Elsevier journals: has anything changed?
Greg Martin, a number theorist at UBC (the University of British Columbia in Vancouver) doesn’t think so, so he has decided to resign from the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Number Theory.
See his resignation letter here:
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/elsevier-journals-has-anything-c…