Math Journal Editors Resign To Start Rival Journal That Will Be Free To Read (insidehighered.com)

An anonymous reader writes: To protest the high prices charged by their publisher, Springer, the editors of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics will start a rival journal that will be free for all to read. The four editors in chief of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics have informed their publisher, Springer, of their intention to launch a rival open-access journal to protest the publisher's high prices and limited accessibility. This is the latest in a string of what one observer called "editorial mutinies" over journal publishing policies. In a news release, the editors said their decision was not made because of any "particular crisis" but was the result of it becoming "more and more clear" that Springer intended to keep charging readers and authors large fees while "adding little value."

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Re:Just a question...

[NixieBunny]

Journals are traditionally published by a couple Dutch companies, and cost a lot in order to make these publishers wealthy. The academics go along with it because they want to be published. These mutinies are trying to wrest control of the journals away from the for-profit Dutch publishers and back into academia where it ought to be. More power to them!