I just sent this round amongst my colleagues up in Newcastle, to try and
gauge response to it. Perhaps some more of you might like to do the same...?
Dear all,
I’d like to bring to your attention the letter below concerning the
involvement of Reed Elsevier in the arms trade and the associated petition.
I’ve checked on the Reed Elsevier website
(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home) and the library here
has electronic licences for the following journals which are more directly
geographical in nature; if you want to check yourselves there are others not
directly geographical in nature which we all use from time to time:
Applied Geography
Communist and Post-Communist Studies
Geoforum
Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography
Journal of Historical Geography
Journal of Transport Geography
Political Geography
World Development
I’ve just e-mailed Reed Elsevier to let them know that in future I will not
be submitting articles/books for consideration in any R.E. journal or
publishing concern, that I’ve removed all R.E. journals from all of my
reading lists and will not be recommending any R.E. publications of any kind
to students that I teach.
In view of the complicity of Reed Elsevier in this awful trade (and in
promoting, of all things, cluster bombs at the arms fairs they support!) I
would like to think that we could mount a campaign where more of us refuse
to use this blood-tainted material, and perhaps persuade the library to drop
any licences for Elsevier Reed.
Jon Cloke
Newcastle University
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