Opinion: Why I left the editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage — and helped start something new
Scientists like Shella Keiholz are beginning to rebel against the unjustifiable waste of resources by traditional scientific research journals.
Last spring, I joined a rebellion.
The entire editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage, of which I was a member, resigned after its publisher refused to take steps to ease the high costs scientists are required to pay for publication in the journal. While this decision threw the brain imaging research community into a frenzy, the rest of the world barely noticed. Yet it should. The accessibility we are striving for is crucial to combat misinformation, increase the pace of discovery, and promote innovation.
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