Indiana University Bloomington March 2, 2004
Bloomington Faculty Council passes resolution on the rising costs of electronic journals and databases

Stanford University February 20, 2004
Faculty Senate passes guidelines for Stanford libraries, faculty and departments regarding academic journals.

University of Connecticut February 9, 2004
University Budget Committee report to the University Senate and an initial response. (Scroll down the page to see the Resolution.)

Cornell University December 17, 2003
Faculty Senate Resolution Regarding the University Library's Policies on Serials Acquisitions, with Special Reference to Negotiations with Elsevier

North Carolina State University December 2, 2003
Faculty Senate Resolution on Bundled Content and Elsevier

University of California, Santa Cruz (PDF) October 24, 2003
Academic Senate resolution on ties with Elsevier

University of California (PDF) October 15, 2003
Letter to the faculty on scholarly communication from the University of California Academic Senate, Office of the Chair and the University Librarians

A longer list of university actions can be found on Peter Suber's Open Access Lists page at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm#actions.

Carl T. Bergstrom - Department of Biology, University of Washington
Ted Bergstrom - Aaron and Cherie Raznick Chair of Economics at UC Santa Barbara

Krzysztof Burdzy - Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington

Rob Kirby - Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley

Donald Knuth - Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford Universtiy

Mark J. McCabe - Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Geogia Institute of Technology

Jim Pitman - Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Michael L Rosenzweig - Editor, Evolutionary Ecology Research and Professor, Evolutionary and Ecology Biology at the University of Arizona

Mike Sosteric - Assistant Professor, Centre for Global and Social Analysis, Athabasca University, and Director, International Consortium for Alternative Academic Publication (ICAAP)

ACM Transactions on Algorithms (PDF) - On December 31, 2003 the entire editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms resigned due to pricing policies of the publisher, Elsevier. On January 21, 2004, the ACM Publications Board approved a proposal for a journal to be called ACM Transactions on Algorithms with the editorial board from JALG.

Compositio Mathematica (PDF) - Commentary by Gerard van der Geer, Managing Editor of Compositio Mathematica on the decision to switch publishers from Kluwer to the London Mathematical Society.

Evolutionary Ecology Research - Address by Michael Rosenzweig on the creation of Evolutionary Ecology Research. This is the earliest example of an editorial board leaving a commercially published journal to protest the publisher's pricing practices and starting a competing journal.

Journal of Machine Learning Research - In October 2001, forty editorial board members of the Machine Learning Journal, published by Kluwer, resigned in protest and lent their support to the Journal of Machine Learning Research published by MIT Press.

Journal of the European Economic Association - In January 2003, the European Economic Association severed its ties to the European Economic Review published by Elsevier and began publishing the Journal of the European Economic Association with MIT Press.

Labor: Studies in Working Class History in the Americas - Founded by the editorial board of Labor History in response to "irreconcilable differences" between the board and the publisher, Taylor and Francis. Labor launched in February 2004, published by Duke University Press and has been adopted by the Labor and Working-Class History Association.

Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (PDF) - In November 1999, the entire editorial board of the Journal of Logic Programming (published by Elsevier and later renamed the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming), resigned and founded Theory and Practice of Logic Programming with Cambridge University Press. The Association for Logic Programming withdrew its support of JLP and adopted TPLP as the sole official journal of the Association.

Other alternative titles can be found on the SPARC Partners web page at: http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=c0