Stem Cell Network Blog: News roundup: open access, new funding for personalized medicine and spinal cord injury update (eg. Elsevier - subscriber-based publisher)

February 01, 2012

News roundup: open access, new funding for personalized medicine and spinal cord injury update

Some updates and news items of note:

Call for boycott of subscriber-based journals gains momentum
The ongoing friction between proponents of open access and the academic publishers has jumped into the spotlight once again with calls from a number of academics, most notably from prominent British mathmetician Tim Gowers, who publicly announced his decision to stop submitting and reviewing for Elsevier. His objections are worth reading. Within days of his comments, a web site was created that allows other researchers to pledge their support for open access and against the practices of Elsevier and other academic publishers. At time of writing, there were over 2400 signatures. Of course, this is not the first time such calls for open access have surfaced from within the research community, the last big push resulted in the formation of the Public Library of Science in 2000.....