From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3518 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Barr Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Boycott Elsevier Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:39:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019355 9098 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:35:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:35:55 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories list Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Tue Dec 12 08:06:57 2006 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Gu6Fp-0006kK-Ax for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:57:01 -0400 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 19 Original-Lines: 23 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3518 Archived-At: Along with Springer, Bertelsmann, Gordon & Breach and any other publisher who is killing our libraries with their outrageous prices. We category theorists have TAC, for example, and there are other possibilities. I have just had a paper (in point set topology) accepted by Mathematica Japonica, who publish in all areas of math. What gripes me about these publishers is that as their costs decline (typesetting was once their largest cost and is now almost gone) their prices go up. It has been almost 12 years since I have anything to do with these publishers, as referee or author. I did hang on as editor for a few more years since it was the only way McGill could get JPAA. Just one more comment. Although I don't think the arms trade would decline if Elsevier didn't participate, I also would not want to be associated with anyone involved in the trade. I do not delude myself into thinking that my repugnance would have any effect. On the other hand, a boycott of these publishers by mathematicians in general would certainly have an effect. Michael