The Chronicle of Higher Education

Scientists at the U. of California at San Francisco Call for a Boycott of 6 Biology Journals

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

Two scientists at the University of California at San Francisco are urging a worldwide boycott of six molecular-biology journals on the grounds that the publisher, Reed Elsevier, is demanding that the University of California system pay too high a price for electronic access to the publications.

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