Open-access row prompts editorial board of Elsevier journal to resign

[Andy]

The editorial board of an influential scientometrics journal — the Journal of Informetrics — has resigned in protest over the open-access policies of its publisher, Elsevier, and launched a competing publication.

The board told Nature that given the journal’s subject matter — the assessment and dissemination of science — it felt it needed to be at the forefront of open publishing practices, which it says includes making bibliographic references freely available for analysis and reuse, and being open access and owned by the community.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00135-8

 

[rvallee]

Hopefully it will be genuine open data and not PLOS One "yes, the authors signed a contract making them obligated to make their data available but we just don't want to enforce it this time don't ask us why we'll just put a notice and go la-la-la-la until you go away".