OccupyRhetoric (OccupyRhetoric) sur Twitter. Occupy Rhetoric. Occupy Elsevier? Flickr, DulcieLee Nearly 4,500 researchers have signed an agreement to refrain from publishing in, refereeing, and/or performing editorial services for journals produced by the science-publishing behemoth Elsevier.
But the publisher of several well-respected life-science journals, including Cell and The Lancet, maintains that a misunderstanding of its intentions, and not unfair business practices, are fueling the boycott. Occupy publishing. Timothy Gowers is boycotting Elsevier and hopes to spark reform that will replace expensive journals with a more rational system For many years, I, like several other mathematicians, have been careful not to submit papers to journals published by the huge publishing conglomerate Reed Elsevier.
Our reasons will be familiar to many readers of Times Higher Education. There was a time when typesetting and dissemination were essential services provided by publishers. Occupy News Network (OccupyNN) sur Twitter. OccupyNerds TO (OccupyNerds) sur Twitter.