Editors stage mass resignations over open-access fees and price hikes.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Nature.com
More than 40 editors have resigned from two leading neuroscience journals in protest against what the editors say are excessively high article-processing charges (APCs) set by the publisher Elsevier. The editors plan to start a new journal hosted by the non-profit publisher MIT Press. The decision to resign came about after many discussions among the editors, who say that the fees, which publishers use to cover publishing services and in some cases make money, are unethical.