The easiest thing... is simply not volunteering our labor to lock academic writing away from the public
-Nick Montfort
This is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access
-Danah Boyd
I will not submit my academic writings to journals whose policies prevent me from continuing to make them available, free of charge
-Terrance Tomkow
Academic publications should be available for the world to read, to learn from, to build upon
-Ben Adida
Editors and editorial boards are not indentured servants. If the publishers will not price reasonably, why not resign, or better yet start a nonprofi t journal with the same constituency but
a new name?
-Ted Bergstrom
The least we should expect is that the outputs of this tax-payer funded activity should be freely available to all.
-Martin Weller
It is hard to understand why we should continue to give the research away to commercial publishers and then buy it back at an enormous price.
-JP Conley & M Wooders
The countries we work with can’t afford journals; they’re already paying an arm and a leg for textbooks.
-Sir John Daniel
The academic community is only hurting itself, and its long term public support, by keeping its knowledge behind high subscription walls
-Andrew Carr
