Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier - my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Johnson
...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Sherwood Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:48 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier — my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog There are real costs that someone must pay. A promising approach

Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier - my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-02-16 Thread Nicholas Thompson
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier — my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog There are real costs that someone must pay. A promising approach adopted by some physics journals is to have the authors pay, with readers having free access. NSF considers

Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier - my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-02-16 Thread Bruce Sherwood
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier — my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog There are real costs that someone must pay. A promising approach adopted by some physics journals is to have the authors pay, with readers having free access. NSF considers author

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2012-02-16 Thread Russell Standish
Sherwood Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:48 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier — my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog There are real costs that someone must pay. A promising approach adopted by some physics journals is to have

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2012-02-01 Thread Carl Tollander
Some further developments: http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/the-faculty-of-1000/ http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/ban-elsevier/ On 1/27/12 5:28 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote: I was elated to find JoVE (the Journal of Visual Experiments, a video database of footage of

Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier — my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-02-01 Thread Owen Densmore
I'm impressed! Had no idea how far this had spread. -- Owen On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com wrote: Some further developments: http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/the-faculty-of-1000/

[FRIAM] Elsevier — my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-01-27 Thread Owen Densmore
Timothy Gowers the Fields medalist mathematician has a recent post on Elsevier and a growing movement to boycott their use http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/ This includes not submitting to the VERY MANY math journals owned by Elsevier:

Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier — my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-01-27 Thread Bruce Sherwood
There are real costs that someone must pay. A promising approach adopted by some physics journals is to have the authors pay, with readers having free access. NSF considers author publication fees a reasonable part of doing business, and physicists are including these costs in grant proposals. In

Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier — my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-01-27 Thread Owen Densmore
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Bruce Sherwood bruce.sherw...@gmail.comwrote: There are real costs that someone must pay. A promising approach adopted by some physics journals is to have the authors pay, with readers having free access. NSF considers author publication fees a reasonable

Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier — my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-01-27 Thread Arlo Barnes
I was elated to find JoVE (the Journal of Visual Experiments, a video database of footage of experiments and techniques) but deeply disappointed to find it was not open access. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv