[kragen]

I worked for Reed Elsevier for a few months in the 01990s (on an outsourced IT contract). They were already internally distributing propaganda encouraging their employees to promote extensions of copyright to factual information (so-called sui generis database rights). They are a profoundly evil institution to their core, in a way that the American Chemical Society just is not.

Your position seems to be that impact factors and bibliometrics are crucial to the progress of science. Nothing could be further from the truth.