From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7176 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: the cost of knowledge Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:30:47 -0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327860114 5308 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2012 18:01:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:01:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: categories To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Joyal=2C_Andr=E9=22?= Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun Jan 29 19:01:53 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.4]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RrZ4b-0002pv-8u for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:01:53 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:38325) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1RrZ3m-0007Kc-6S; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrZ3m-00074R-B7 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:01:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7176 Archived-At: On 28/01/12 12:58, Joyal, Andr=E9 wrote: > Dear category theorists, > > This is to let you know (in case you are not) that there > is presently a campain to boycott Elsevier. > > http://thecostofknowledge.com/ > > Best, > Andr=E9 > As Andre says in the link, mathematical knowledge should be free. But a problem in boycotting Elsevier is that jobs and grants depend on=20 the dreadful system based on the impact factor of journals. A good way of making mathematical knowledge free is to send all=20 mathematical knowledge to the arXiv. Also, to upload as much as possible mathematical knowledge to the net,=20 legally or illegally. To create a math-megaupload. e.d. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]