I have signed the Cost of
knowledge petition and thereby stopped submitting my work to all Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and Taylor & Francis journals. I have also stopped writing reports for these journals. No need to ask me for a favor. The answer will be no. I strongly support all colleagues who sign the petition and stop promoting these business practices which I find unfair.
I have unfortunately been unaware of these editorial issues for a long time. Some of my work has been published in Elsevier,
Springer or Wiley journals in the past. I have also written some reports for these journals. I can not rewrite the past, but starting
from 2017 I have decided to stop participating in a system which I find is wrong. I might very well stop submitting my work
and writing reports for other editors in the future.
The Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse is the home of the
Annales de la Faculté
des Sciences de Toulouse that is a completely free journal for both authors and readers. The Annales are part of the
Centre Mersenne
which edits free access journals and proceedings.
I strongly encourage all colleagues to submit their work for publication in the
Annales de la Faculté
des Sciences de Toulouse and other diamond open access journals. A partial list of such mathematical journals may be found
here,
here
or here. Further information (all disciplines) may be found here.
