Readers of this blog probably already know that there's a call out to boycott journals published by Elsevier because of their anti-scientific publishing practices. Initially researchers were signing a pledge to not contribute to Elsevier's activities, by refusing to publish in, referee for, or do editorial work for any Elsevier journal. I've signed this (at The Cost of Knowledge), and you should too.
Jon Eisen has now expanded this, asking that researchers also refrain from promoting work published in Elsevier journals (Boycotting Elsevier is not enough - time to make them invisible). Don't write blog posts about them, don't choose them for journal club, don't even cite them if a reasonable alternative is available (he didn't say that last one, but I do).
This is all very well in principle, but if you're like me you have only a very fuzzy idea of which journals in your field are part of the Elsevier empire. The information is available for all fields on Elsevier's web site, but I thought I'd do my bit by listing here the journals in my field. But then I saw how many there are! Of course my 'field' is an unusual overlap of genetics and molecular biology and microbiology and evolutionary biology, but still. Here are a few you might recognize:
Elsevier's list (94 journals): Microbiology and Virology
Elsevier doesn't have a list for Evolution or any related topic, so I did a search. Although that identified 179 journals, most are not focused on evolution. Here's a link to the first 25 on the list.
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Jon Eisen has now expanded this, asking that researchers also refrain from promoting work published in Elsevier journals (Boycotting Elsevier is not enough - time to make them invisible). Don't write blog posts about them, don't choose them for journal club, don't even cite them if a reasonable alternative is available (he didn't say that last one, but I do).
This is all very well in principle, but if you're like me you have only a very fuzzy idea of which journals in your field are part of the Elsevier empire. The information is available for all fields on Elsevier's web site, but I thought I'd do my bit by listing here the journals in my field. But then I saw how many there are! Of course my 'field' is an unusual overlap of genetics and molecular biology and microbiology and evolutionary biology, but still. Here are a few you might recognize:
- Cell
- Current Opinion in Microbiology
- FEBS Letters
- Gene
- Journal of Molecular Biology
- Microbiological Research
- Mutation Research
- Plasmid
- Protist
- Trends in Biochemical Sciences
- Trends in Cell Biology
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Trends in Genetics
- Trends in Microbiology
Elsevier's list (94 journals): Microbiology and Virology
Elsevier doesn't have a list for Evolution or any related topic, so I did a search. Although that identified 179 journals, most are not focused on evolution. Here's a link to the first 25 on the list.
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