Are you an academic concerned that #Elsevier's profiteering publishing practices are extracting money and labor from you and your colleagues for free? Are you terrified that Elsevier's support for #FossilFuels is helping accelerate #ClimateBreakdown?
Don't fret! The #StopElsevier campaign has got you covered, with a wealth of resources to help take power away from them via collective action.
https://stopelsevier.wordpress.com/
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The #StopElsevier website provides you with lots of resources and links to learn about #Elsevier's ties to #oil, #gas and #coal corporations. This includes providing them with information and data services for new areas for fossil fuel extraction, housing exhibitions for the industry, and #lobbying with politicians to prevent #ClimateAction 2/n
Learnt enough? Use that knowledge for good! The #StopElsevier website includes a ton of resources for taking #action & exposing their activities, including a ready-made reply to an #Elsevier editor explaining why you're denying to #PeerReview for their corporation. You can also post this reply in social media, to send a collective signal to others that it's not ok to give labor away to those contributing to the climate crisis. 3/n
#OpenScience #OpenData #CollectiveAction #OpenSource #OpenAccess
Want to take it up a notch? Well, you can also refuse to publish in #Elsevier journals (e.g. #Cell #TheLancet, #TREE), reducing their capacity to #profit off #AcademicPublishing and of giving money to the #FossilFuel industry. Thankfully, tons of diamond open access alternatives now exist to allow you to publish your peer-reviewed research for free and #OpenAccess, like the @PeerCommunityJournal: https://peercommunityjournal.org/ 4/n
Would you like to speak to the manager? Now you can! En masse! The #StopElsevier campaign provides direct links to the #editorial boards of major #Elsevier journals, which can become your pen pals with the click of a button, to tell them about Elsevier's fossil fuel-promoting activities. 5/n
https://stopelsevier.wordpress.com/take-action/
#OpenAccess #EthicalScience #EthicalPublishing #EcologicalBreakdown #ClimateEmergency
Have you been looking for a way to report #Elsevier to one of the many governments that can help prosecute them for their behavior? Well, look no more!
The #StopElsevier website provides you with direct links to governmental agencies in the UK, Australia, US and EU to which you can tip off and report concerns about #greenwashing and false #sustainability claims. 6/n
All this is great, you might say, but what if I think #Elsevier's contribution to the #planetary disruption of our atmospheric and #ecological systems merits a tad more than just a letter?
Well, I hear there will be announcements for collective #DirectAction against Elsevier, soon to be posted on this website, in collab with @ScientistRebellion . Stay tuned! n/n
To help out, you can mail them:
[email protected]
#CivilDisobedience #CivilResistance #Activism
I had to chuckle when I read that for the UK the government requires companies don't mislead or hide information.
Does that apply to anything that the #UKGovernment has mislead or hidden from its citizens?
#Greenwashing #Gaslighting #Hypocrisy #Hypocrite #Hypocritical
Fernando Racimo
Jonathan Wright