You already know my feelings about that exploitive science publisher, Elsevier; I'm not the only one, and there's been a long, long history of anger over their publishing model — and it's not just scientists, but scholars in other disciplines who have been peeved.
Now a boycott has coalesced. If you publish, edit, or review Elsevier journal articles, make your opinion known and sign the petition.
(Also on FtB)
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This is a tale of two companies and a bunch of not-so-innocent bystanders.
Elsevier has released a new scholarly article sharing policy which is definitely more disappointing than really any cause for cheer.
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Remember about a week ago, when I lamented how scientific publisher Elsevier had created a fake journal for Merck that reprinted content from other Elsevier journals favorable to Merck products in