Board walkout leads to new journal
A new journal covering understanding of brain function and structure through the application of neuroimaging will launch this summer after a well-publicised bust-up led to the entire editorial board of the sector's leading publication walking out in a dispute over fees charged to authors.quit in April saying they could no longer ignore the "unreasonably high costs of publication and access" being charged by owners, Elsevier.
, scheduled to launch in July. The publisher said it wanted the publication to become the premier journal in the field of neuroimaging. The journal's new editor-in-chief was named as Stephen Smith, professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Oxford, who joined colleagues in April this year in resigning to protest at what they called "extreme" processing charges levied on academic authors by Elsevier.NeuroImage, said they were acting "with deep regret" but could no longer ignore the "unreasonably high costs of publication and access".
In their resignation statement, dated 17 April, they wrote: "Scientists and funders increasingly feel that it is wrong for publishers to make such high profits, particularly given that the publishers do not fund the original science, or the writing of articles, or payments to reviewers, and pay minimal editorial stipends."Both editorial teams said they were "immensely proud" of their work at the journals and greatly regretted having to take their course of action.
Professor Chris Chambers, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Cardiff, who was among the 42 to stand down, said in a tweet at the time of the resignations that "Elsevier continues to prey on the academic community, claiming huge profits while adding little value to science".
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