May 31, 2002

Boycott Over Lack of Online Access to Journals Is a Bust

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Few of the 30,000 scientists who pledged in the past year to boycott journals that don't make their content free online have actually followed through on that threat, and few journals have changed their ways. Now the boycott's leaders are planning a new tactic -- starting their own journals, so scientists will have an alternative to traditional publishers.

The boycott, announced in April 2001, is led by a group of prominent scientists calling itself the Public Library of Science

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