Elsevier Journal Faces Mass Resignations Due to Unethical Price Hike

The editorial board of NeuroImage, a leading neuroscience journal published by Elsevier, has resigned over the publisher's decision to raise its open-access fees to $3,450. The editors have accused Elsevier of "pure greed" and have started a new non-profit journal, Imaging Neuroscience. The mass resignation highlights the high open-access charges levied by leading scientific journals, with Nature and Cell charging about £8,000. Elsevier has appointed an interim internal editorial team and said it values its editors highly.