On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 21:50:10 -0700
"William G. Scott" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Sorry about the off-topic nature (so to speak) of this post,
> especially given that it is not yet Friday, but I am interested what
> our community thinks of this:
>
> http://library.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Nature_Faculty_Letter.pdf
>
There has been a rather extensive discussion on slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06/09/213256/Univ-of-California-Faculty-May-Boycott-Nature-Publisher
Also take a gander at Donald Knuth's section "crisis in scientific
publishing" on his webapge:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news03.html
with a link to an excellent letter he sent to Journal of Algorithms a
few years ago:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/joalet.pdf
-Tim
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