Showing posts with label undermining open access. Show all posts
Showing posts with label undermining open access. Show all posts

Friday, February 3, 2012

Petition Targeting Elsevier’s Business Practices Begins to Snowball; LibraryJournal.com, 1/31/12

Michael Kelley, LibraryJournal.com; Petition Targeting Elsevier’s Business Practices Begins to Snowball:

"Timothy Gowers, of the University of Cambridge and a winner of the Fields Medal, criticized Elsevier on his blog on January 21 for charging exorbitantly high prices, obliging libraries to purchase either a large bundle of journals (including ones they do not want) or none at all, and supporting legislation, such as the Research Works Act, that Gowers said undermines open access."