{"id":7946,"date":"2012-01-30T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T16:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7946"},"modified":"2012-01-30T08:56:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T16:56:26","slug":"boycott-elsevier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/boycott-elsevier\/","title":{"rendered":"Boycott Elsevier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I have the blog open, let me throw in a quick two cents to support the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/01\/testify-the-open-science-movement-catches-fire\/all\/1\">Boycott Elsevier<\/a> movement.  As most working scientists know, Elsevier is a publishing company that controls many important journals, and uses their position to charge <a href=\"http:\/\/gowers.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/21\/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall\/\">amazingly exorbitant prices<\/a> to university libraries &#8212; and then makes the published papers very hard to access for anyone not at one of the universities. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/subject_journal_browse.cws_home\/P12?SH1Code=P12&amp;showProducts=Y\">physics<\/a> their journals include <em>Nuclear Physics<\/em>, <em>Physics Letters<\/em>, and other biggies. It&#8217;s exactly the opposite of what should be the model, in which scientific papers are shared freely and openly.<\/p>\n<p>So now an <a href=\"http:\/\/thecostofknowledge.com\/\">official boycott<\/a> has been organized, and is gaining steam &#8212; if you&#8217;re a working scientist, feel free to add your signature. Many bloggers have chimed in, e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/cscs.umich.edu\/~crshalizi\/weblog\/864.html\">Cosma Shalizi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/?p=891\">Scott Aaronson<\/a>. Almost all scientists want their papers to be widely accessible &#8212; given all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doaj.org\/\">readily available alternatives<\/a> to Elsevier (including the new <a href=\"http:\/\/prx.aps.org\/\">Physical Review X<\/a>), all we need to do is self-organize a bit and we can make it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I have the blog open, let me throw in a quick two cents to support the Boycott Elsevier movement. As most working scientists know, Elsevier is a publishing company that controls many important journals, and uses their position to charge amazingly exorbitant prices to university libraries &#8212; and then makes the published papers very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-science-and-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}