<br><a href="http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/Nature_Faculty_Letter-June_2010.pdf">http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/Nature_Faculty_Letter-June_2010.pdf</a><br><br>"UC Libraries are confronting an impending crisis in providing <br>
access to journals from the Nature Publishing Group (NPG).<br> NPG has insisted on increasing the price of our license for <br> Nature and its affiliated journals by 400 percent beginning in <br> 2011, which would raise our cost for their 67 journals by well <br>
over $1 million dollars per year."<br><br><br>"UC Faculty would ask the UC Libraries to <b>suspend their<br>online subscriptions entirely,</b> and all UC Faculty would be <br>strongly encouraged to:<br><ul><li>
Decline to peer review manuscripts for journals from the Nature Publishing Group.</li><li>Resign from Nature Publishing Group editorial and advisory boards.</li><li>Cease to submit papers to the Nature Publishing Group.</li>
<li>Refrain from advertising any open or new UC positions in Nature Publishing Group journals.</li><li>Talk widely about Nature Publishing Group pricing tactics and business strategies with colleagues outside UC, and encourage sympathy actions such as those listed above.</li>
</ul> <br>"...In the meantime, UC scholars can help break <br>the monopoly that commercial and for-profit <br>entities like NPG hold over the work that we <br>create through positive actions such as:<br>
<br> • Complying with open access policies from Federal funding agencies such as the NIH<br> (<a href="http://publicaccess.nih.gov">http://publicaccess.nih.gov</a>).<br> • Utilizing eScholarship, an open access repository service from CDL<br>
(<a href="http://www.escholarship.org/publish_postprints.html">http://www.escholarship.org/publish_postprints.html</a>).<br> • Considering other high-quality research publishing outlets, including open access journals such as those<br>
published by PLoS and others.<br> • Insisting on language in publication agreements that allows UC authors to retain their copyright<br> (<a href="http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/manage/retain_copyrights.html">http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/manage/retain_copyrights.html</a>).<br>
<br><br><a href="http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2010/06/09/letter-to-uc-faculty-on-nature-publishing-group-subscription-increases/">http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2010/06/09/letter-to-uc-faculty-on-nature-publishing-group-subscription-increases/</a><br>
<br><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-Tries-Just/65823/">http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-Tries-Just/65823/</a><br><br>"Support for a Boycott
<p>Keith
Yamamoto is a professor of molecular biology and executive vice dean of
the School of Medicine at UC-San Francisco. He stands ready to help
organize a boycott, if necessary, a tactic he and other researchers
used successfully in 2003 when another big commercial publisher,
Elsevier, bought Cell Press and tried to raise its journal <a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA379265.html">prices</a>."</p><p>"Although researchers still have "a very strong tie to traditional journals" like <i>Nature</i>,
he said, scientific publishing has evolved in the seven years since the
Elsevier boycott. "In many ways it doesn't matter where the work's
published, because scientists will be able to find it," Mr. Yamamoto
said."<br><br></p>