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October 27, 2006

Editorial Board of Elsevier Journal Resigns in Protest Over Pricing

Editorial Board of Elsevier Journal Resigns in Protest Over Pricing
By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

The entire editorial board of the prestigious mathematics journal Topology has resigned to protest the pricing policies of the journal's publisher, Elsevier, a giant European editorial company.

"Topology has a very high price per page," said Marc Lackenby, a member of the editorial board and a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford. "Elsevier as a whole doesn't seem to be acting in the interest of the mathematical community."

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Posted by Donna Braquet at October 27, 2006 01:02 PM