Donald E. Knuth, David S. Johnson, and Zvi Galil, the former editors of the Journal of Algorithms, have written a public statement explaining their decision to resign from the Elsevier journal and launch a new journal with the ACM. Their letter is online now and will be published in March 2004 issue of SIGACT News. For most of the details on their reasons, they cite Donald Knuth's public letter of October 2003.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/04/2004 12:32:00 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.
