But then again, there may be many more scientists disillusioned with the academic journal system than I think.
At least in mathematics my impression is that there are a lot. The Cost of Knowledge boycott against Elsevier has about 13,000 signatures at the moment. Discussion of this kind of issue in the mathematical community has been happening for awhile now, most prominently at places like Tim Gowers’ and Terence Tao’s blogs, but also on Google Plus.
At least in mathematics my impression is that there are a lot. The Cost of Knowledge boycott against Elsevier has about 13,000 signatures at the moment. Discussion of this kind of issue in the mathematical community has been happening for awhile now, most prominently at places like Tim Gowers’ and Terence Tao’s blogs, but also on Google Plus.