So I’m editing this journal issue and… | 2013 | The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"...PLOT TWIST The sad truth is that we’ll never see this particular issue of the Journal of Library Administration. I received an email this morning from Damon announcing that he and the entire Editorial Board of JLA resigned their positions. Here is the gist:  

• “The Board believes that the licensing terms in the Taylor & Francis author agreement are too restrictive and out-of-step with the expectations of authors in the LIS community.”
• “A large and growing number of current and potential authors to JLA have pushed back on the licensing terms included in the Taylor & Francis author agreement. Several authors have refused to publish with the journal under the current licensing terms.”
• “Authors find the author agreement unclear and too restrictive and have repeatedly requested some form of Creative Commons license in its place.”
• “After much discussion, the only alternative presented by Taylor & Francis tied a less restrictive license to a $2995 per article fee to be paid by the author.  As you know, this is not a viable licensing option for authors from the LIS community who are generally not conducting research under large grants.”
• “Thus, the Board came to the conclusion that it is not possible to produce a quality journal under the current licensing terms offered by Taylor & Francis and chose to collectively resign.”

So that’s my Saturday. I know that these political statements happen occasionally where boards step down to make a point. I just wish they would have waited until September. While I’m sure that these authors could easily publish elsewhere, the most exciting part for me was the cohesive package — that these individual papers (these aspirational ideas) would be bound together...."