Boycott of Elsevier Exceeds 8000 Researchers

Boycott of Elsevier Exceeds 8000 Researchers 220

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday March 19, 2012 @06:46PM
from the no-paywalled-journal-shall-touch-this-citation-list dept.

kkleiner writes with an update on the boycott of Elsevier started in January. From the article: "Academic research is behind bars and an online boycott by 8,209 researchers (and counting) is seeking to set it free — well, more free than it has been. The boycott targets Elsevier, the publisher of popular journals like Cell and The Lancet, for its aggressive business practices, but opposition was electrified by Elsevier's backing of a Congressional bill titled the Research Works Act. Though lesser known than the other high-profile, privacy-related bills SOPA and PIPA, the act was slated to reverse the Open Access Policy enacted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2008 that granted the public free access to any article derived from NIH-funded research."