Douglas Arnold on the Elsevier Boycott

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This episode we talk with Douglas Arnold [1], McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. Professor Arnold is active in the movement to boycott Elsevier [2] for charging exorbitantly high prices, supporting measures such as SOPA, PIPA, and until last week [3], the Research Works Act, as well as for the publisher’s many ethical lapses [4]. We discuss the start of the movement [5], the movement’s tactics, why this movement took hold in mathematics, in particular, and why those in other fields—such as the social sciences—should pay attention and join in. Links discussed in the episode: thecostofknowledge.com [6] Arnold’s “More reasons to support the Elsevier boycott” [7] Statement of Purpose [8] (PDF) arXiv.org [9] Download Office Hours #43 [10]. [1] http://umn.edu/~arnold [2] http://thecostofknowledge.com [3] http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/newmessagerwa [4] http://umn.edu/~arnold/reasons.html [5] http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/ [6] http://thecostofknowledge.com [7] http://umn.edu/~arnold/reasons.html [8] http://gowers.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/elsevierstatementfinal.pdf [9] http://arxiv.org [10] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH43_Arnold.mp3

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