AI researchers are boycotting Nature journals: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/why-are-ai-researchers-boycotting-new-nature-journal-and-shunning-others May be there is something we can in our field?
2018-07-02 10:01 GMT+03:00 George Sheldrick <gshe...@uni-goettingen.de>: > Since neither I nor my university can afford Elsevier journals, I have no > access to papers published in them. In view of their excessive profits, for > some years I have not submitted papers to them and have declined all > requests to referee for them. If everyone did that, they might reconsider > their approach. I am not an Apple fan either - I use a more reasonably > priced native Linux laptop - but have to give Apple credit for innovation. > > George > > > > On 07/01/2018 06:57 PM, Patrick Loll wrote: > > > I think what we should do is not publish in journal families where the > profit is above 10 per cent. Elsevier is the place to start as their profit > margins are like those of Apple, and of competition there is none. > > > Elsevier: Like Apple, but without the design sense. > > > But seriously, Adrian makes an excellent point. And the large profit > margins wouldn’t be quite so galling, if only the publishers were able to > provide competent and helpful administrative support; but in my recent > experience, not-for-profit scientific society journals are actually > providing better experiences for reviewers and authors than the big > commercial ones. > > Pat > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------- > > Patrick J. Loll, Ph. D. > > Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology > > Drexel University College of Medicine > > Room 10-102 New College Building > > 245 N. 15th St > <https://maps.google.com/?q=245+N.+15th+St&entry=gmail&source=g>., > Mailstop 497 > > Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192 USA > > > (215) 762-7706 > > pjl...@gmail.com > > pj...@drexel.edu > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > > -- > Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS > Dept. Structural Chemistry, > University of Goettingen, > Tammannstr. 4, > D37077 Goettingen, Germany > Tel. +49-551-39-33021 or +49-5594-227312 > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > -- Eugene Osipov Junior Research Scientist Laboratory of Enzyme Engineering Research Center of Biotechnology Russian Academy of Sciences Leninsky pr. 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia e-mail: e.m.osi...@gmail.com ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
