Tim Gowers comentou esta carta da Elsevier ponto a ponto: http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/elseviers-open-letter-point-by-point-and-some-further-arguments/
JM 2012/2/27 Walter Carnielli <[email protected]>: > ============== > A letter to the mathematics community. > > We are writing to let you know of a series of changes that we are > making to how the Elsevier mathematics program will be run. Some of > these are new initiatives, and some reflect changes that we have been > working on over a longer period. > > We have been listening actively to the community and we see a number > of issues that we need to address, not least being open to what the > community has to say: > > Pricing > Mathematics journals published by Elsevier tend to be larger than > those of other publishers. On a price-per-article, or price-per-page > level, our prices are typically, but not always, lower than those of > other mathematics publishers. > > Our target is for all of our core mathematics titles to be priced at > or below US$11 per article (equivalent to 50-60 cents per normal > typeset page) by next year, placing us below most University presses, > some societies and other commercial competitors. Where journals are > more expensive than this, we will lower our prices, as we already have > in recent years for journals such as the Journal of Algebra and > Topology and its Applications, among others. > > We realize that this is just part of the concerns about pricing -and > we will seek to address concerns about the nature and composition of > the large discounted agreements, through which most Universities now > access journals - but addressing the base line pricing is a necessary > first step. > > Access and Open Archives > To make clear that we are committed to wider access, we have made the > archives of 14 core mathematics journals open, from four years after > publication, back to 1995, the year when we started publishing > digitally. All current and future papers featured in these journals > will become free to read, for subscribers and non subscribers alike. > This initiative is part of a number of open access publishing options > we have available which give researchers the freedom to choose to open > their research beyond the academic community. For more information > about Elsevier's open access options, visit > www.elsevier.com/openaccess. > > We are a founding partner in Research4Life, a public private > partnership providing journal content to researchers in the developing > world. More than 1600 Elsevier journals, including our mathematics > titles, are available in more than 100 developing countries. > > Our position on RWA > Elsevier has announced today that we are withdrawing our support for > the Research Works Act. In recent weeks, our support for the Act has > caused some in the community to question our commitment to serving the > global research community and ensuring the best possible access to > research publications and data. We have heard concerns from some > Elsevier journal authors, editors and reviewers that the Act would be > seen as a step backwards for expanding options for free and low cost > public access to scholarly literature. That was certainly not the > intention of the legislation or our intention in supporting it. Please > read our full statement online. > > Moving forward > Now that we have explained the steps we have taken so far we want to > stress this is just the beginning. > > We will create a scientific council for mathematics, to ensure that we > are working in tandem with the mathematics community to address > feedback and to give greater control and transparency to the community > and we will engage actively with leaders in a number of countries to > ensure that our mathematics program is meeting the needs of the > community, globally and locally. > > There are many other issues where we wish to engage with the > community, including our efforts to improve digital rendering of > mathematics, the use and misuse of citation measures for the > discipline and our efforts to ensure high standard across all of our > journals. > > We welcome your views on these and all our efforts at: > [email protected] > > Sincerely, > > David Clark & Laura Hassink > Senior Vice Presidents, Physical Sciences > ====================================== > > -- > ----------------------------------------------- > Prof. Dr. Walter Carnielli > Director > Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science – CLE > State University of Campinas –UNICAMP > 13083-859 Campinas -SP, Brazil > Phone: (+55) (19) 3521-6517 > Fax: (+55) (19) 3289-3269 > Institutional e-mail: [email protected] > Website: http://www.cle.unicamp.br/prof/carnielli > _______________________________________________ > Logica-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l -- http://sequiturquodlibet.googlepages.com/ _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list [email protected] http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
