http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/21/some-questions-for-elsevier/

http://neurodojo.blogspot.co.nz/2012/02/whens-scientists-and-published.html

I used to think that the “you have to publish in Nature, Science, or the very best journal in your field to get a job” ethos didn’t really apply in ecology. Yes, having a Nature or Science (or maybe PNAS) paper would certainly get you interviews, but it wasn’t necessary. And it certainly wasn’t necessary to have a paper in any one particular ecology journal–there was no ecology equivalent of, say, Cell. Yes, you needed to have papers in good journals, but there were various ecology journals that were considered “good”–Ecology, Ecological Monographs, Am Nat, the BES journals, Oikos, and others. But with the increased competition born of several years of a bad academic job market, and the increasing impact factor of Ecology Letters, I’m starting to wonder if that’s not changing. So while ecologists might might be able to sustain a boycott of Elsevier, I wonder what would happen if someone tried to get them to boycott Wiley-Blackwell, or even just boycott Wiley-Blackwell’s non-society journals.

Zen Faulkes suggests that hiring practices ought to change in order to address this problem. But that’s a whole ‘nother conversation, both about the reasonableness or otherwise of current hiring practices, and about the reasonableness or otherwise of trying to change those hiring practices.

http://neurodojo.blogspot.co.nz/2012/02/from-open-gaming-to-open-science.html

Or, why Elsevier ought to take some lessons from the people who publish…(wait for it)…Dungeons and Dragons!

Well, getting shot certainly is inconvenient…

(Obvious) joking aside, I guess that’s part of what this debate over the Elsevier comes down to–different people drawing the line in different places in terms of what “collateral damage” from a protest is acceptable. As I’ve said, I’m with you on this, as I don’t think academics have a duty to review for any particular journal (even if they submit to it), they only have a duty to, over the course of their careers, do at least enough reviewing to balance their submitting.

http://neurodojo.blogspot.co.nz/2012/01/shoot-hostage.html

You’ve already addressed this issue, but I thought the analogy was fun.

http://oikosjournal.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/on-seeing-the-big-picture/
http://oikosjournal.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/getting-over-robert-macarthur/

Anyone who admires MacArthur, or admires folks who admire MacArthur, will find the second one particularly, um, provocative.