Don't mess with mathematicians!

Today's New York Times has a piece on a movement organized by mathematicians to boycott Elsevier, the behemoth publisher of academic journals. Nearly 6,000 researchers have joined the boycott of publishing in, peer reviewing for, or serving on the editorial boards of Elsevier journals. The tipping point was apparently the movement by Elsevier and other publishers to attempt to undo the NIH rule requiring studies funded by taxpayers to be made freely available to readers without subscription fees. In this document, the organizers nicely lay out their arguments on how for-profit publishers are exploiting academicians and academic libraries. I wish the mathematicians an eternal supply of sharpened pencils and much success in battling Goliath.

Graphic: Justin Ketterer

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