Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Elsevier, journal or vampire squid?

http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1351

We survey the reasons for the ongoing boycott of the publisher Elsevier. We examine Elsevier's pricing and bundling policies, restrictions on dissemination by authors, and lapses in ethics and peer review, and we conclude with thoughts about the future of mathematical publishing.

I wanted to view a pubmed article the other day, the full rights to unlimited (i.e. not cut off after 24 hour) viewing was >$600.