Editorial staff of Elsevier publication resign to protest company’s pricing policies
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029353
Ars Technica : Academics have protested Elsevier’s business practices for years, but one group took action this week. The editorial staff of Lingua, one academic journal published by Elsevier, resigned to protest the high cost of subscription to the journal and Elsevier’s refusal to make it open access. The editors have now announced they are starting their own, open-access journal called Glossa. Because of the rising costs of many academic journals, libraries have been struggling to maintain their subscriptions. The open-access business model was first launched some 15 years ago to shift the costs from the subscribers to some other funding option such as publication charges or subsidies.
