Good on the UC library and science faculty for proposing a boycott of Nature and affiliated journals. Nature Publishing Group wants to increase its rate by 400% in 2011, though well aware that the UC library has had its budget cut by $1.9 million. As the letter from Laine Farley et al. (which I highly recommend) astutely points out, Nature and its affiliated journals depend heavily on the research, reviewing, and editorial labor, all uncompensated, of UC faculty. As Barbara Hui writes, "[i]t's Fight Club soap."
Update: Jen Howard's Chronicle article.
Thanks for this post. I've looked, but can't find, a response from Nature. What is their explanation/viewpoint?
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ReplyDeleteThat link's an appropriate answer but fails to include the further response from CDL, which links the NPG response that Google turns up and picks out its errors. *shrugs*
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