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Editorial Mutiny at Elsevier Journal
The entire editorial board of the Elsevier-owned Journal of Informetrics resigned Thursday in protest over high open-access fees, restricted access to citation data and commercial control of scholarly work.
Today, the same team is launching a new fully open-access journal called Quantitative Science Studies. The journal will be for and by the academic community and will be owned by the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). It will be published jointly with MIT Press.
The editorial board of the Journal of Informetrics said in a statement that they were unanimous in their decision to quit. They contend that scholarly journals should be owned by the scholarly community rather than by commercial publishers, should be open access under fair principles, and publishers should make citation data freely available.
Elsevier said in a statement that it regretted the board's decision and that it had tried to address their concerns.
"Since hearing of their concerns, we have explained our position and made a number of concrete proposals to attempt to bridge our differences," Tom Reller, vice president of global communications at Elsevier, said in a statement. "Ultimately they decided to step down and we respect that decision and wish them the best in their future endeavors."
Elsevier's response to the board's requests can be accessed in full here.
This is not the first time the editorial board of an Elsevier-owned journal has quit to start a competing journal. In 2015, the editorial board of top linguistics journal Lingua made headlines by leaving their posts and announcing plans to start a rival open-access publication called Glossa.
Like Lingua, the Journal of Informetrics is considered one of the top journals in its field. It was started in 2007 and focuses on research of measures used to assess the impact of academic research, including bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics and altmetrics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @05:33PM (4 children)
that's called being a whore. fuck your job, you goddamn cowards. this is why the whole nation/world is going to shit. people think "muh jerb" is a reasonable excuse. it's not, you dishonest sycophants.
(Score: 3, Touché) by AssCork on Thursday January 17 2019, @07:15PM
How's furlough treating you?
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Friday January 18 2019, @04:10PM (2 children)
That's called needing to eat. Capitalism makes whores of us all.
(Score: 2) by AssCork on Friday January 18 2019, @06:37PM (1 child)
Could always hunt, preserve meat for the winter months. But then again vegans don't really "eat" in the traditional sense, either. Pretty sure they just drink water and complain a lot.
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Friday January 18 2019, @10:32PM
Nice. The owner of a vegan restaurant nearby shared on social media a post with the caption, "When you haven't told anyone you're a vegan in more than five minutes" and a gif of a person tensing up, turning red, and then exploding in a ball of fire.
But for what it's worth, my vegan friends don't bring it up unless we're going to a restaurant that has absolutely nothing they can eat. I am not a vegan, I had eggs and meat yesterday. But I went to the vegan place for lunch and had a hoagie with a black bean pattie, onions, peppers, corn, olives, vegan cheese (which honest to goodness isn't that far off America), on a hoagie roll and a strawberry banana smoothie (water, strawberries, bananas, ice, nothing else). It's not bad food, I could live off it.