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Apropos of this discussion is this posting by the renowned mathematician, Timothy Gowers, explaining why he will no longer do any work for Elsevier: http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/ There's now a site where researchers can put a stake in the ground saying they refuse to publish, referee, or do editorial work for Elsevier: http://thecostofknowledge.com/. The signatories are mostly in math and computer science -- but anyone can sign the pledge. Similarly, a linguist at MIT, Kai von Fintel, has come out with a very strong personal statement as to his own policies for publishing and reviewing: http://kaivonfintel.org/2012/01/16/my-open-access-policy/. This is very much in keeping with what Jeroen suggested below, although Jeroen's list goes even further in what I agree with Bruce are very constructive ways. Best, Rebecca On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > ... > > > What you can *do* as a scholar: > > - refuse to do unpaid labour for Elsevier as long as the profits of > their science division are above 10% and as long as they support acts to > hinder Open Access > > - refuse to give away your copyright, for a how-to see: > http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors/ > > - submit your articles to pubhlishers with a liberal self archiving > policy (see the Sherpa-Romeo listing at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ > > - help creating assessment systems that are not soleley based on numbers > of articles in certain journals > > - write less (traditional style) articles (but read more :-)) > > - help creating discipline wide international preprint servers and > working paper hosts, i.e. develop a publication culture more akin to that > in economics or physics > > - devote a set amount of time to free information services, e.g. work on > further improving wikipedia articles for 2 hours or so each month. > > - ask your library for help if you have doubt about a certain publisher > or journal > > These are all good suggestions. There's also this fairly practical > open access pledge, which someone just reminded me of: > > <http://www.openaccesspledge.com/> > > Bruce >