On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 21:50:10 -0700 "William G. Scott" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sorry about the off-topic nature (so to speak) of this post, > especially given that it is not yet Friday, but I am interested what > our community thinks of this: > > http://library.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Nature_Faculty_Letter.pdf > There has been a rather extensive discussion on slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06/09/213256/Univ-of-California-Faculty-May-Boycott-Nature-Publisher Also take a gander at Donald Knuth's section "crisis in scientific publishing" on his webapge: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news03.html with a link to an excellent letter he sent to Journal of Algorithms a few years ago: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/joalet.pdf -Tim -- --------------------------------------------------------- Tim Fenn [email protected] Stanford University, School of Medicine James H. Clark Center 318 Campus Drive, Room E300 Stanford, CA 94305-5432 Phone: (650) 736-1714 FAX: (650) 736-1961 ---------------------------------------------------------
