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Re:The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against... by tylerneylon on Monday January 23, 2012 @02:46PM (#3501797)
I created this page this weekend as one small thing I could do to help the math world and academia in general with this problem.

Would anyone be willing to help me add improvements to the page? It's become popular more quickly than I expected, and I would appreciate the help. I've temporarily added my email address to my hacker news profile, so anyone can contact me. Thank you!

Re:The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against... by masklinn on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:05PM (#3501888)
> Would anyone be willing to help me add improvements to the page?

Reversing the list (last-on-top) and putting the "More names belong here" text above the fold might be a good idea.

And if you know somebody who can draw icons, getting an icon for each "refrainment" might look nice (might also look worse, but good icons in the CC style could spread in the community and be used e.g. on researcher's blogs).

Otherwise, I like it. It's clear, simple and to the point.

Also, I think you should default the subject to empty and mandate it, you seem to have a lot of mathematicians (though it could be because it spread there first).

And you should check your form's encoding, there's mojibake at the end of the list, "Université" instead of "Université".

Re:The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against... by vijayr on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:35PM (#3502015)
Also consider grouping by university, subject etc, and adding a search box (search by university, person's name)
Re:The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against... by mcburton on Monday January 23, 2012 @02:58PM (#3501850)
You should include a link or more description about Elsevier's awful publishing practices for those who aren't already in the know.
Re:The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against... by tylerneylon on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:06PM (#3501892)
Agreed, it's in the works. I'm balancing this with my startup.
Re:The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against... by scott_s on Monday January 23, 2012 @04:57PM (#3502338)
You can link to Knuth's letter to the editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms from 2003: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf

Linking to the recent NY Times and blog posts from well-known researchers would help as well.

Re:The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against... by impendia on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:34PM (#3502013)
You got two Fields medalists there. And counting. :)