40 editors at a scientific journal just resigned in protest of their publisher's "greed"

Items tagged with oa.nonprofit in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) 2023-05-10

Summary:

"This came to a boil on April 17, when more than 40 scientists resigned from their editorial positions at a journal called NeuroImage — one of the world's leading publications concerning brain imaging. Founded in 1992, the journal publishes around 1,000 articles per year with an impact factor of 7.4, which is a metric for how often the journal's research is cited by others. NeuroImage has been open access since 2020, a mode of scientific publishing that eschews paywalls, allowing anyone to read the research, share it and build upon it...."

Link:

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/10/elsevier-editor-resignation-neuroimage/

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oa.up oa.resignations oa.protests oa.neuro oa.mit_press oa.journals oa.fees oa.ethics oa.editors oa.declarations_of_independence oa.business_models publishing scholcomm nonprofit publishers elsevier

Date tagged:

05/10/2023, 09:10

Date published:

05/10/2023, 05:22