BOYCOTT
January 27, 2012 4 Comments
I am very pleased to join in with the boycott of Elsevier academic journals. It’s about time! My pledge: I shall not be submitting to or refereeing any Elsevier journals, until they change their ways.
Actually, come to think of it, I’m going to boycott ALL academic journals. Screw you journals! Journals suck. Besides, I’ve got a blog.
Haha, you funny, I’ll kill you last.
On a serious note though, I’ve often wondered whether it would be worth it for certain blogs to officially turn themselves into journals. Take In Mala Fide for example. Lou Robinson (aka Ferdinand) already accepts submissions and (presumably) reviews them himself– all he has to do is get the various submitters to review each other, and bam, IMF is peer-reviewed! Next, label Lou’s own articles as “editorials” and divide the archive arbitrarily into “volumes” and “issues”. Get an ISBN and some doi’s. BANG, now college kids can cite it in their term papers, and everything is cutting-edge research!
So we’re outing Ferdie, now, are we? First I’ve heard about it, though I’d be curious how it came about and why you feel inclined to participate, Xamuel. Lucky for him his name’s one step less anonymous than “Joe Smith” … oh, or, erm, “Elsevier”. Right, then. On topic. Yes, indeed.
No, Lou Robinson is a penname of a penname. The penname Ferdinand Bardamu is copyrighted or something, so he used Lou Robinson for the author name of his book. If IMF were to become an official journal, the same logic would apply there.
Pssh. Bandwagon jumper. I’ve been boycotting Elsevier since I was born.