"If you do offer open-access options, let the world know about them. Talk
to your critics as well as your supporters. Understand that if you ask
librarians to sign nondisclosure agreements about subscription deals,
there's good will as well as profit at stake."
"Nervous academic publishers??
More than 8,800 scholars have signed on to a boycott of the
science-publishing giant Reed Elsevier, vowing not to review for or
publish in its journals. They say the publisher charges "exorbitantly
high prices" for its journals; that it exploits libraries by making them
buy pricey bundled subscriptions to those journals; that it supports
proposed legislation that would "restrict the free flow of information."
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