The entire academic board of the journal ‘Neuroimage’, including professors from Oxford University, King’s College London and Cardiff University resigned after Elsevier refused to reduce publication charges. Academics around the world have applauded what many hope is the start of a rebellion against the huge profit margins in academic publishing, which outstrip those made by Apple, Google and Amazon.
i’m glad to see this finally hit a breaking point somewhere in the academic publishing industry, and hopefully it’ll inspire more such actions. i know there’s already a lot of resistance within the field, but SciHub and stuff like that ultimately aren’t going to end the problem here, they just mitigate the worst parts of it. the whole industry needs to be remade from within