One Editor's Experience Declaring Independence From A Corporate Publisher and Thoughts on the Future

"To learn more I spoke with Michael Rosenzweig, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, who in 1998 became one of the first editors-in-chief to leave his publisher when he led the editorial board of Evolutionary Ecology in declaring independence from the journal’s then publisher, International Thomson. Like the editors of Lingua, Evolutionary Ecology’s board also left its publisher in protest of high subscription costs which, despite the editors’ best efforts to combat them, were continuing to rise at a rate of 19% a year...."