Aaron Swartz, Programmierer und Aktivist bei Demand Progress wurde gestern verhaftet, weil er zu viele Artikel aus der wissenschaftlichen Datenbank JSTOR heruntergeladen hat.
Forscher laufen Sturm gegen Elsevier, einen der größten Wissenschaftsverlage der Welt. Es geht um Wucher, geistige Ausbeutung, Betrug. Und um die Zukunft des Publizierens
Occupy Publishers: Tausende Forscher revoltieren gerade gegen die Preispolitik des Verlagshauses Elsevier, eines Giganten auf dem Markt für wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften.
SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote a blog post outlining the reasons for his longstanding boycott of research journals published by Elsevier. This firm, which is based in the Netherlands, owns more than 2,000 journals, including such top-ranking titles as Cell and the Lancet. However Dr Gowers, who won the Fields medal, mathematics’s equivalent of a Nobel prize, in 1998, is not happy with it, and he hoped his post might embolden others to do something similar.
Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier. Academics have protested against Elsevier's business practices for years with little effect. The key to all these issues is the right of authors to achieve easily-accessible distribution of their work. If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they radically change how they operate, then you can do so by filling in your details in the box below.