Sam 18 Mai 2019 - 0:03 par 
A movement to boycott scientific publishing giant Elsevier because of the high price of its journals is rapidly gathering steam. Nine days after it started, more than 2600 scientists—including several Field Medalists—have signed a petition at thecostofknowledge.com in which they pledge not to publish papers in Elsevier's journals, nor referee other researchers' studies, or do other types of editorial work for the company.
The petition, which has created a buzz on researchers' blogs and Twitter, isn't just an attack on Elsevier, its organizers say, but also an attempt to show the scientific community that it can help change the publishing business themselves to increase access to their studies.
The Cost of Knowledge was initiated by Field Medalist and blogger Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who says he has been boycotting Elsevier himself for many years. While he was writing a lengthy blog post on Elsevier's practices on 21 January, he initially thought he'd simply make that policy public. "Only while I was writing did it occur to me that it would be good to have a place where everybody who wanted to could make a similar declaration, so I mentioned that," he says. Tyler Neylon, a blogger and Ph.D. student in math at New York University took Gowers's cue and created the Web site 2 days later.
Many scientists and librarians consider Amsterdam-based Elsevier, which publishes over 2500 journals in all fields of science, one of the villains in the scientific publishing industry; its journals can cost up to $20,000 a year, while the company's profit margin in 2010 was 36%, according to ... LIRE LA SUITE
LA PETITION
The petition, which has created a buzz on researchers' blogs and Twitter, isn't just an attack on Elsevier, its organizers say, but also an attempt to show the scientific community that it can help change the publishing business themselves to increase access to their studies.
The Cost of Knowledge was initiated by Field Medalist and blogger Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who says he has been boycotting Elsevier himself for many years. While he was writing a lengthy blog post on Elsevier's practices on 21 January, he initially thought he'd simply make that policy public. "Only while I was writing did it occur to me that it would be good to have a place where everybody who wanted to could make a similar declaration, so I mentioned that," he says. Tyler Neylon, a blogger and Ph.D. student in math at New York University took Gowers's cue and created the Web site 2 days later.
Many scientists and librarians consider Amsterdam-based Elsevier, which publishes over 2500 journals in all fields of science, one of the villains in the scientific publishing industry; its journals can cost up to $20,000 a year, while the company's profit margin in 2010 was 36%, according to ... LIRE LA SUITE
LA PETITION
