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Tag Archives: Elsevier
Elsevier: The beginning of the end?
I’ll admit, I got some satisfaction out of telling the editor of the “Journal of Functional Analysis” last week that I will not referee the paper he had sent me because I am boycotting everything Elsevier. I was less thrilled … Continue reading
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Tagged Elsevier, Harvard, Technical University of Munich, Tim Gowers, Wellcome Trust
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Elsevier’s first concessions to its “enablers”
In October 2001, more than 30,000 scientists signed an open letter in which they pledged to exclusively publish in, review for and serve as editors of journals that placed their contents in the –then newly launched– PubMed Central with no more … Continue reading
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Tagged Elsevier, gowers, mathematics community, mea culpa, public relations nightmare
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