Boycott highlights Open Access alternatives.(Editorial)

October was quite a remarkable month for the Open Access movement. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) became a fully fledged publisher with the launch of its flagship journal PLoS Biology. The Wellcome Trust and the Max Planck Society expressed the increasingly firm commitment of European funding agencies to supporting Open Access publishing. And a group of US academics called for a boycott of Cell Press.

Two researchers from the University of California's San Francisco campus, Peter Walter and Keith Yamamoto, circulated a letter asking colleagues to boycott the prestigious Cell Press journals, to protest about the high prices Cell Press is charging for electronic …