Editors of 2 academic publications walk out and start their own

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University professors and researchers depend upon getting published. So, it was considered a bold move when the editors of two prestigious brain journals resigned en masse this month after the publisher refused to lower the fees it charges academics to publish in it. The editors of NeuroImage said that profits are coming before research and that they’re going to start a rival journal. Ari Daniel reports it’s part of a backlash against the for-profit model.

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