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BOYCOTT AGAINST ELSEVIER PUBLISHING COMPANY
(header part of the web page thecostofknowledge.com created by Tyler Neylon to support open research)
THE COST OF KNOWLEDGE
RESEARCHERS TAKING A STAND AGAINST ELSEVIER
Academics have protested against Elsevier's business practices for years with little effect.
These are some of their objections:
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They charge exorbitantly high prices for subscriptions to individual journals.
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In the light of these high prices, the only realistic option for many libraries is to agree to
buy very large "bundles", which will include many journals that those libraries do not actually want.
Elsevier thus makes huge profits by exploiting the fact that some of their journals are essential.
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The key to all these issues is the right of authors to achieve
easily-accessible distribution of their work.
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 at the original full website at http://thecostofknowledge.com/.
More information:
Statement of Protest | PolyMath journal publishing reform page
This site on cost of knowledge was built as a reaction in support of
Tim Gowers's post on Elsevier.
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