As this report in The Guardian states, “More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of publishing giant Elsevier.”
“The entire academic board of the journal Neuroimage […] resigned after Elsevier refused to reduce publication charges.”
Reportedly, “[a]cademics around the world have applauded what many hope is the start of a rebellion against the huge profit margins in academic publishing.” One resignee is reported to have “urged fellow scientists to turn their backs on the Elsevier journal and submit papers to a nonprofit open-access journal which the team is setting up instead.”
Read the full report here.
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