Alison McCook, Researchers Boycott Cell Press, The Scientist, October 23, 2003. A good overview of the thrusts and parries. Quoting Peter Walter, one of the boycott organizers, on the prestige of some of the boycotted titles: "There's no point to having the little gold star attached to your papers, if your colleagues can't read them." Quoting Karen Butter, librarian at the University of California, San Francisco: the boycott should make Elsevier "think twice about their pricing strategy…because we can't afford it." Quoting Matthew Scott, of the California Digital Library and Stanford University: "People will turn more and more to [open access], because they're so fed up with being denied access."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/23/2003 02:52:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
