The Trouble With Institution-Led Boycotts

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Trouble With Institution-Led Boycotts
John Villasenor, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018/12/20
Last week in a memo entitled Important Notice Regarding Elsevier Journals UCLA leaders urged faculty to consider "declining to review articles for Elsevier journals until negotiations are clearly moving in a productive direction." The University of California system is engaged in a dispute with Elsevier over the publisher charging the institution for access to papers authored by its own staff. More...