ORGANISERS of a boycott of scientific journals are pressing ahead with plans
to publish their own journals free on the Internet. The move follows refusals by
publishers to make their archives freely available online.
Six weeks ago, scientists called for a boycott after major publishers refused
to upload papers to an online “Public Library of Science” within six months of
publication. More than 28,000 scientists had demanded the change in a joint
letter and some of them have now decided to stop subscribing to, writing for, or
peer-reviewing papers for any of the thousands of journals refusing to upload…
