[Insight-developers] OPEN ACCESS: University of California Librarians Call for Boycott of Nature Publisher

[Luis Ibanez]

http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/Nature_Faculty_Letter-June_2010.pdf

"UC Libraries are confronting an impending crisis in providing
 access to journals from the Nature Publishing Group (NPG).
 NPG has insisted on increasing the price of our license for
 Nature and its affiliated journals by 400 percent beginning in
 2011, which would raise our cost for their 67 journals by well
 over $1 million dollars per year."


"UC Faculty would ask the UC Libraries to *suspend their
online subscriptions entirely,* and all UC Faculty would be
strongly encouraged to:

   - Decline to peer review manuscripts for journals from the Nature
   Publishing Group.
   - Resign from Nature Publishing Group editorial and advisory boards.
   - Cease to submit papers to the Nature Publishing Group.
   - Refrain from advertising any open or new UC positions in Nature
   Publishing Group journals.
   - Talk widely about Nature Publishing Group pricing tactics and business
   strategies with colleagues outside UC, and encourage sympathy actions such
   as those listed above.



"...In the meantime, UC scholars can help break
the monopoly that commercial and for-profit
entities like NPG hold over the work that we
create through positive actions such as:

    •    Complying with open access policies from Federal funding agencies
such as the NIH
         (http://publicaccess.nih.gov).
    •    Utilizing eScholarship, an open access repository service from CDL
         (http://www.escholarship.org/publish_postprints.html).
    •    Considering other high-quality research publishing outlets,
including open access journals such as those
         published by PLoS and others.
    •    Insisting on language in publication agreements that allows UC
authors to retain their copyright
         (
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/manage/retain_copyrights.html).


http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2010/06/09/letter-to-uc-faculty-on-nature-publishing-group-subscription-increases/

http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-Tries-Just/65823/

"Support for a Boycott

Keith Yamamoto is a professor of molecular biology and executive vice dean
of the School of Medicine at UC-San Francisco. He stands ready to help
organize a boycott, if necessary, a tactic he and other researchers used
successfully in 2003 when another big commercial publisher, Elsevier, bought
Cell Press and tried to raise its journal
prices<http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA379265.html>
."

"Although researchers still have "a very strong tie to traditional journals"
like *Nature*, he said, scientific publishing has evolved in the seven years
since the Elsevier boycott. "In many ways it doesn't matter where the work's
published, because scientists will be able to find it," Mr. Yamamoto said."
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