Elsevier

Jim Stasheff wrote:

One of Elsevier's motives (and other publishers) is close to trying to corner the market or at least squeeze out all the profit possible

we now have several ways to resist 1. choice of journal to which we submit papers B. choice of journal for which we will perform slave labor (editing) III. advice in re the above to our mentees

I quit serving as an editor for Advances in Mathematics when it was bought by Elsevier. When I learned how bad the situation was, I also quit refereeing for all Elsevier-run journals. People can read the rest of my rant here: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/journals.html Best, jb