Declaring Independence by SPARC

"I am writing to you as one of the editors-in-chief of a journal that went through the flipping process described in this guide. In spring 2017, the editors-in-chief and editorial board of the Springer-owned Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics decided to leave in order to found a new, free, open access journal called Algebraic Combinatorics. Our new journal started accepting submissions in the summer, published its first issue in January 2018, with the second issue to follow in a few days as I write this in March 2018."