Union joins ‘white coat’ revolution

The peak union for academic staff in Australia has joined a global campaign against Elsevier, one of the world’s largest publishers of academic papers. Elsevier has been criticised for business practices which keep information out of the public domain and a global campaign called  The Cost of Knowledge has so far seen more than seven thousand researchers globally, including nearly a hundred from Australia, deny their academic labour to Elsevier, including publishing in, and refereeing and editing for Elsevier journals.