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• Brainspore commented on Elsevier has <em>an entire division</em> dedicated to publishing fake advertorial "peer-reviewed" journals
  How much did my university library have to pay renew Elsevier subscriptions? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Um, if you are a fan of unbiased scientific inquiry you might want to lay off the Ben Stein quotes......
• Anselm commented on Elsevier has <em>an entire division</em> dedicated to publishing fake advertorial "peer-reviewed" journals
  I used to work for a small-time Berkeley company competing in the academic press market. Elsevier was a word that we were more careful about than f***. Librarians routinely referred to them as The Big Evil One. No other company has done as much to guzzle library budgets, give publishers a bad name, and generally destroy the variety in academic journals. I hate them....
• Anselm commented on Elsevier has <em>an entire division</em> dedicated to publishing fake advertorial "peer-reviewed" journals
  P.S. Wily-Blackwell is quite respectable!...
• klenow commented on Elsevier has <em>an entire division</em> dedicated to publishing fake advertorial "peer-reviewed" journals
  Boycotting. There's not a lot that most people can do, but if you are in the scientific community, there are three things. One: stop referencing their journals. Not referencing them reduces their impact score, which is basically the journal's rating. This will not be easy, but it is possible. Elsevier publishes Cell, the Actas, Lancet, the Current Opinion journals, and many other standbys. High impact is a tough island to assault, but every little bit can help. There's a list here. Any of you computer whizes think you can make a Firefox plugin that will flag journals from that list...