Reiterating briefly: Don’t be mean to people just because they’re caught in Elsevier’s web. We want them to do one of three things, on principle:

• Express opposition to SOPA and RWA in an editorial inside the journal, calling upon Elsevier to change its stance and lobbying practices
• Make a public statement opposing Elsevier’s stance on SOPA and RWA, calling attention to it within Elsevier as well
• Leave the editorial board, individually or in a collective declaration of independence, and explain both publicly and privately why

The editorial board of Government Information Quarterly:

• J. Carlo Bertot, University of Maryland
• Tomasz Janowski, United Nations University
• Marijn Janssen, Technische Universiteit Delft
• Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington
• John Shuler, University of Illinois Chicago
• Aimee Quinn, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque
• Suzanne Reinman, Oklahoma State University
• Frank Bannister, Trinity College
• Patrick J. Birkinshaw, University of Hull
• Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto
• Rowena Cullen, Victoria University of Wellington
• Maggie Farrell, University of Wyoming
• Robin Gauld, University of Otago
• Dave Gelders, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Robert Gellman, Washington DC (this is him, the Loon believes)
• J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Mexico D.F., Mexico
• Paul T. Jaeger, University of Maryland
• Luis F. Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla
• Stephen McDowell, Florida State University
• Karine Nahon, University of Washington
• Theresa Pardo, SUNY-Albany
• Charles D. Raab, University of Edinburgh
• Chris G. Reddick, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Harold C. Relyea, Library of Congress
• Jeffrey W. Seifert, Information Science and Technology Policy
• Tommy Snead, University of Oklahoma
• Maddalena Sorrentino, Università degli Studi di Milano
• Sharon Strover, University of Texas-Austin
• Maria Wimmer, Universität Koblenz-Landau

Please, ladies and gentlemen, don’t let Elsevier use you while stabbing you and all the rest of us in the back.

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