From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6853 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Stay Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: science_publishers Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 07:11:10 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Mike Stay NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314897834 19118 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2011 17:23:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Categories To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Thu Sep 01 19:23:50 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 1QzAzU-0002xj-64 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:23:48 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:42198) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QzAwA-000423-Rw; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:20:22 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QzAwA-0001Jv-71 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:20:22 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6853 Archived-At: Another page with the same viewpoint: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/journals.html On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Eduardo J. Dubuc wrote= : > Just thought some in the list may not be aware. =A0Greetings =A0e.d. > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > 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-m= urdoch-socialist > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]