Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing? – podcast
More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the ‘greed’ of the publisher. Ian Sample speaks to correspondent Hannah Devlin about the remarkably lucrative business of scientific publishing, hears from Prof Chris Chambers about what was behind the recent mass resignation, and finds out why researchers are demanding change
Read coverage of scientists’ resignation from journal Neuroimage here.
Read Stephen Buranyi’s long read article about the business of scientific publishing here.
Find out more about the new non-profit neuroscience journal here.
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