> Andrew Wells from the Council of University Librarians believes Elsevier is being unfairly singled out. "The practices that Elsevier has both in dealing with authors and in selling scholarly content to libraries are very similar to those used by many other scholarly publishers such as Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor & Francis and Springer," he says.

Quite right. The Elsevier boycott gives us a way to make our voice heard against the worst of the publishers. It lends urgency to the drive to change the system, and it will hit Elsevier hard in the pocketbook, demonstrating to publishers that we (academics) are going to stop providing them with their free lunch.

Once we further get our act together, believe me, we will be coming after Wiley and any other publisher who engages in exploitative, rent-seeking behavior.