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Scientific publishing 科学出版 The price of information 信息的价格 Academics are starting to boycott a big publisherof journals 学术界开始联合抵制某个大型期刊出版商 SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. 有时一块小卵石就足以使冰山崩裂。 On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridge University, 一月二十一日，剑桥大学数学家Timothy Gowers写了一篇博文， wrote a blog post outlining the reasons for his longstanding boycott of research journalspublished by Elsevier. 其中陈列了其长期抵制埃尔塞维尔科学出版社的研究期刊的原因。 This firm, which is based in the Netherlands, owns more than 2,000 journals, including suchtop-ranking titles as Cell and the Lancet. 这个总部位于荷兰的公司主营的期刊就有2000多，包括《细胞》和《柳叶刀》等世界一流的刊物。 However Dr Gowers, who won the Fields medal, mathematics s equivalent of a Nobel prize,in 1998, is not happy with it, and he hoped his post might embolden others to do somethingsimilar. 然而菲尔兹奖得主Gowers博士对它不满，并希望其博文可以鼓励他人联合抵制。 | 
