The Editors are Revolting
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This story is from our July 2023 issue of?The Brief—C&E's monthly newsletter covering professional and scholarly communication.?Read the full issue here.
The Editors are Revolting
Funders are not the only ones increasingly disillusioned with the APC and the changes it often leads to in journals (such as higher article output, potentially of lesser quality). In the last month, two editorial boards have resigned en masse, the result of editors balking at publisher attempts to adapt to funder OA policies. The?editors of Critical Public Health resigned?because Taylor & Francis planned to take the journal from hybrid status to fully OA, as did?those at Wiley’s Journal of Biogeography. Meanwhile?the Design Research Society condemned Elsevier?for its plans to greatly expand the publication volume of?Design Studies?from 35 articles per year to 250, presumably to make the journal sustainable in the volume-driven world of OA. These editorial revolts follow two others, as we discussed in the?May issue of The Brief: the resignation of much of the editorial board of Wiley’s?Journal of Political Philosophy?over the firing of the journal’s editor-in-chief because of his refusal to increase the number of articles accepted each year and the editorial team behind Elsevier’s?NeuroImage?who similarly quit in protest, in response to perceptions that the journal’s APCs are too high...
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