Opinion: Elsevier are corrupting open science in Europe
I do not really understand the outrage.<p>Nobody forces you to publish in Elsevier journals. Just publish it in a blog, where there will be comments. Out of these you make your choice whether the publication makes sense.<p>The ones to blame are univesities and grant commitees which use the impact index as The Universal Science Ruler.<p>It is akin to blaming Oracle for closing their databases. You do 'ot like it, move to Postgres, mysql or something else.<p>Yes, quality of publications will suffer for some time. Yes, papers (blog posts) will be more difficult to get to but it will settle down. Until we have open source science.