Academics Begin Boycott Of Journal Publisher Elsevier

Nearly 6,000 researchers so far “have agreed to boycott publishers Elsevier, vowing not to peer-review or submit papers for any of its scientific journals. … The researchers supporting the boycott, more than 1000 of whom are mathematicians, object to the journals’ pricing and the company’s support for several proposed US laws ‘ including the controversial SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills.”