Journal publishing reform
From Polymath Wiki
This is a collection of links to information, opinion, activism, and other issues concerning the practices of research journal publishers (particularly in the mathematical sciences). Further contributions are welcome.
Pledges, boycotts, and petitions
- Research Without Walls
- Open Access Pledge
- Appel pour des négociations équilibrées avec les éditeurs de revues scientifiques - a petition concerning the bundling and pricing practices of Springer
- The Cost of Knowledge
- A petition to stop the Research Works Act
- See these tag libraries from the Open Access Tracking Project (more comprehensive after April 2009 than before):
Blog posts and opinion pieces
- Comparative price of math journals, Rob Kirby, 27 May 1997.
- We can make a change, Gerard van der Geer, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, May 2004.
- What we can do about journal pricing, Walter Neumann, September 2005.
- Publishing economics harm science's credibility, Chris Lee, Ars Technica, November 2008.
- Integrity under attack: The State of Scholarly Publishing, Douglas Arnold, SIAM news, December 2009.
- What We Can Do About Science Journals, John Baez, January 24 2011.
- What might be done about high prices of journals?, IMU blog on mathematical journals, July 12 2011.
- The lairds of learning Article by George Monbiot, August 29 2011.
- Serials crisis and corn laws, Francis Sedgemore, 7 September 2011.
- How might we get to a new model of mathematical publishing?, Timothy Gowers, October 31 2011.
- A more modest proposal, Timothy Gowers, November 3 2011.
- A timeline of the debate initiated by this post, Peter Krautzberger, November 26 2011.
- Elsevier - my part in its downfall, Timothy Gowers, January 21, 2012.
- Fields medalist Tim Gowers: Elsevier — my part in its downfall, Hacker News, January 21, 2012
- One mathematician's stance against Elsevier, Reddit, January 22 2012.
- A response by David Clark at Elsevier, January 23 2012.
- The cost of knowledge, Timothy Gowers, January 23 2012.
- The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier, Hacker News, January 23 2012.
Media
- Reed Elsevier makes its final farewell to arms, article in The Guardian, May 2008. Summary: Reed Elsevier was until 2009 organizing arms trade fairs.
- Elsevier Published 6 Fake Journals, article in The Scientist, May 2009. Summary: Elsevier was paid by unnamed pharmaceutical companies to publish six journals that looked like independent peer-reviewed medical journals, but which were not.
- The Elsevier fake-journal tally eventually rose to nine.
Other Information
- On Elsevier
- Reed Elsevier's 2009 report Elsevier reported a profit of 1.1 billion dollars on revenue of 3.2 billion dollars
- Criticism and controversies of Elsevier (Wikipedia)
- Elsevier support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (Gizmodo)
- Elsevier support for the Research Works Act (RWA) (Michael Nielsen)
- On open access
- Open Access
- Open Access Directory
- Open Access Overview (Peter Suber)
- On scholarly journals
Elsevier mathematics journals
This list is taken from here
- Acta Mathematica Scientia
- Advances in Applied Mathematics
- Advances in Engineering Software
- Advances in Mathematics
- Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (C) Analyse Non Linéaire
- Annals of Pure & Applied Logic
- Annual Reviews in Control
- Applied & Computional Harmonic Analysis
- Applied Mathematical Modelling
- Applied Mathematics & Computation
- Applied Mathematics Letters
- Applied Numerical Mathematics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Automatica
- Biometric Technology Today
- Biosystems
- Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques
- Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
- Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
- Comptes Rendus Mathematique
- Computational Geometry
- Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
- Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
- Computers & Mathematics with Applications
- Control Engineering Practice
- Differential Geometry and its Applications
- Discrete Applied Mathematics
- Discrete Mathematics
- Discrete Optimization
- Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
- Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
- Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
- European Journal of Combinatorics
- European Journal of Operational Research
- Expositiones Mathematicae
- Finite Fields and their Applications
- Fuzzy Sets and Systems
- Historia Mathematica
- Indagationes Mathematicae
- Information Sciences
- International Journal of Forecasting
- International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
- Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées
- Journal of Algebra
- Journal of Algorithms
- Editorial board resignation, 13 December 2003
- Journal of Applied Logic
- Journal of Approximation Theory
- Journal of Combinatorial Theory, series A
- Journal of Combinatorial Theory, series B
- Journal of Complexity
- Journal of Computational & Applied Mathematics
- Journal of Computer and System Sciences
- Journal of Differential Equations
- Journal of Discrete Algorithms
- Journal of Econometrics
- Journal of Functional Analysis
- Journal of Geometry and Physics
- Journal of Mathematical Analysis & Applications
- Journal of Mathematical Economics
- Journal of Multivariate Analysis
- Journal of Number Theory
- Journal of Process Control
- Journal of Pure & Applied Algebra
- Journal of Statistical Planning & Inference
- Journal of the Franklin Institute
- Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
- Linear Algebra and its Applications
- Mathematical and Computer Modelling
- Mathematical Biosciences
- Mathematical Social Science
- Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
- Neural Networks
- Nonlinear Analysis
- Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems
- Nonlinear Analysis: Real world applications
- Operations Research Letters
- Pattern Recognition
- Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
- Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
- Simulation Modelling Practice & Theory
- Statistical Methodology
- Statistics and Probability Letters
- Stochastic Processes and their Applications
- Systems & Control Letters
- Topology
- Topology & its Applications
Open Access mathematics journals
- This list is taken from the Directory of Open Access Journals (limited to peer-reviewed journals).
- Perhaps someone could spell out or cut/paste the two DOAJ lists below, like the Elsevier list above.
- In mathematics
- In statistics
