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Univ. of California Faculty May Boycott Nature Publisher

Posted by timothy on from the what-market-will-bear-is-an-empirical-question dept.

Marian the Librarian writes "Nature Publishing Group (NPG), which publishes the prestigious journal Nature along with 67 affiliated journals, has proposed a 400% increase in the price of its license to the University of California. UC is poised to just say no to exorbitant price gouging. If UC walks, the faculty are willing to stage a boycott; they could, potentially, decline to submit papers to NPG journals, decline to review for them and resign from their editorial boards."

3 of 277 comments (clear)

  1. l0lz0rs fr0sty pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first boycott.

  2. Nature: Another Inglorious Product by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    along with:

    1. Canada
    2. United States
    3. Israel
    4. Hong Kong
    5. Iraq
    6. India
    7. Pakistan
    8. Bangladesh
    9. Afghanistan
    10. Australia
    11. New Zealand
    12. BP (British Petroleum)

    United KINGdom

    (A.K.A. The British Empire )

    Yours In Samarkand,
    Kilgore Trout

  3. Re:Create an Open Source Alternative! by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They should take advantage of the technology and displace the parasite.

    There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we (technology) are the cure.