"Elsevier: just another greedy bottom-feeder, or SPAWN OF SATAN????" - Bill Hooker

Comment left on Bill's blog... - Graham Steel

Bill, did I ever tell you that your "I wouldn't give them the steam off my ****" comment made it into a strategy discussion session as a conversation point at the big E? - Cameron Neylon

Bill: SPARC has some of the items you mention -- certainly the cards -- and I just bet if you presented this idea to them, they'd bite. I hereby volunteer to staff the OA booth at any conference I'm going to! - D0r0th34

for what it is worth - I still wear my PLoS ONE T-shirt once a week :) - Jean-Claude Bradley

This subject came during an interview I gave a month afterwards, blog post here with the MP3 http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/2008... (section 18:38 to 25:45) SPARC comes up at the end of that section and thanks to this post & discussion, I must contact them again ! - Graham Steel

Cameron -- no, you never mentioned that... do I need to go into witness protection now? :-) - Bill Hooker

*imagines the Elseviley Verlag mafia* *shudders* - D0r0th34

Hmmm. After many years of avoiding the damn things, I'm being sent to a discipline-specific conference next March... will have to clear the OA activism with the boss though since I'm on the company dime. - Bill Hooker

Based upon my own experience, def. worth clearing with "the boss" beforehand, Bill. That was the *only* lesson that I learned from this. In my case, I got a 'mild-slap' for not announcing what I intended to do but that said, I didn't know what I was going to do but "I'll certainly do this again". - Graham Steel

I am very tempted by a new excuse to wear t-shirts more of the time. - Steve Koch

Steve the ScienceOnline2010 conference usually has some pretty decent swag - including t-shirts from the OA crowd - Jean-Claude Bradley