UCLA asked faculty to consider declining to review for Elsevier journals
If UCLA were serious it would simply walk from the negotiation.<p>THAT would send a message to all parties. It might actually spur some action on the part of faculty to get off their collective backsides and consider how every day they perpetuate an unsustainable system of scientific communication.<p>This letter and others like it are moves by third-rate negotiators. Faculty who make publication and review decisions simply don't care about the cost of subscriptions enough. If they did, Elsevier would be on the ropes, not calling the shots.<p>The letter UCLA sent out will receive widespread acclaim by a vocal minority, and go ignored by everyone else.