Elsevier willing to compensate editors to prevent them from 'flipping' - ScienceGuide
peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-12-22
Summary:
"With Plan S rapidly approaching the editorial boards of some journals are considering leaving the paywalled journals at major publishing houses and 'flip' their journal to open access. To prevent editors from leaving, Elsevier now appears to be willing to pay editors considerable yearly amounts to stay on....
At this moment multiple editorial boards are moving to ‘flip’ their titles away from the paywalled model....
As the end of 2018 draws Elsevier faces a grim outlook for the coming year. Last week the University of California communicated it is willing to let its contract expire December 31st. Additionally today the Max Planck Digital Library discontinued their agreement with the publisher followed by the news that the Hungarian EISZ consortium has also terminated their negotiations with Elsevier...."