From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6850 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: science_publishers Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:48:59 -0300 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314877072 17443 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2011 11:37:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:37:52 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Thu Sep 01 13:37:48 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpy.mta.ca ([138.73.1.128]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qz5ad-0002wy-SR for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:37:48 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:43525) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qz5VL-0007o6-3f; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:32:19 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qz5VK-0008UE-FM for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:32:18 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6850 Archived-At: Just thought some in the list may not be aware. Greetings e.d. =============================================================== Von: David Mumford [mailto:dbmumford@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 31. August 2011 18:11 An: Caroline Series; Rob Kirby; Don McClure; Peter J Olver; Martin Groetschel; John Ball; Ingrid Daubechies; Jeremy Mumford; notices@math.wustl.edu; vicente.munoz@mat.ucm.es; Peter Michor Betreff: Fwd: Elsevier Dear Friends, My son sent me the link below to a very strong and very clear article in the Guardian about the huge fees charged by technical publishers for access to journals. It represents how I have felt for a long time, how the math community among others is being outrageously exploited. I feel it ought to galvanize scientists/mathematicians to react and would like to suggest reprinting it in e.g. the Notices of the AMS, the Newsletter of the EMS, the news email from the IMU, etc. The simple response for mathematicians is to cease submitting any papers to Elsevier or Springer journals. (Excuse me but I am sending this to a somewhat random sample of people that occurred to me and whose email address I had -- eg I don't have an address for Ewing or Friedlander.) yrs faithfully, David http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist ================================================================= [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]