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>"Timothy Gowers's first big assault on academic publishing started almost by accident. In 2012, the Cambridge mathematician took to his blog to write a post b
by logicrook 11y ago
>"Timothy Gowers's first big assault on academic publishing started almost by accident.
In 2012, the Cambridge mathematician took to his blog to write a post bemoaning the exorbitant prices that journals charge for access to research. Gowers vowed to stop sending his papers to any journal from the world's largest academic publisher, Elsevier.
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To his surprise, the post went viral — and spurred a worldwide boycott of Elsevier, [...]"
>Be top scientist
>Publish a statement of intent on your widely followed blog
>People who have felt the same way but could not express their opinion without damaging their career follow
>be surprised
How much is this article insulting the reader's intelligence?
- nkurz 11y ago> How much is this article insulting the reader's intelligence? I didn't get that sense. Could you explain why you feel it's insulting?
- logicrook 11y agoWell, Gowers went at great length explaining its motivations [0] (see the following quote, from [1]). So saying that Gowers started attacking Elsevier "by accident" and "was surprised that it grew as a movement" is very disrespectful to Gowers, to truth, and also a bit to the reader. >"Once I did hear about Elsevier’s behaviour, I made a conscious decision not to publish in Elsevier journals and I started to feel bad about cooperating with them in any way. [...] Now, however, I have decided that my previous quiet approach was not enough." [0] https://gowers.wordpress.com/category/elsevier/ https://gowers.wordpress.com/category/elsevier/ [1] https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/ https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-...