To keep you aware of issues in the world of academic publishing, here is the latest action on the part of academics on editorial boards to protest pricing policies of a monolithic publisher.

“The entire editorial board of the prestigious mathematics journal Topology has resigned to protest the pricing policies of the journal’s publisher, Elsevier, a giant European editorial company.”

For more information:

From the NY Sun, go to: http://www.nysun.com/article/42317

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, go to: http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=WxTFZ2Pm2Zzcjzhywb4CYmgq66vWqY5b