[wolfgke]

It would already be a step into the right direction if institutes using BOINC promise to release any research papers they do (not only the ones generated using BOINC) completely (without exception) under some creative commons license. If they already do, they should advertize this fact.

In other words: Volunteering computation time just to make Elsevier/Springer/Wiley rich or volunteering computation time to an institute which also supports projects that make Elsevier/Springer/Wiley rich is something that I'm dubious about.