Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Elsevier Boycott? Yes!

It has been bothering me for a long time the situation with academic publishing. But recently (because one of the best things about teaching in Stanford was the ability to use their electronic library for papers) it became more obvious to me and to the rest of the world that this economic model is totally wrong.

Some of the issues are discussed here
http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/the-cost-of-knowledge/
but not all.

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