Now we know first-hand: Editorial board of librarians resign over journal publisher’s restrictive licensing <http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/now-we-know-first-hand-editorial-board-of-librarians-resign-over-journal-publishers-restrictive-licensing/>
The entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration<http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjla20/current>, published by the Taylor & Francis Group, has resigned in protest over the publisher’s restrictive author licensing policies. Brian Mathews, who was preparing a special issue of JLA on library futures as guest editor, reported<http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/2013/03/23/so-im-editing-this-journal-issue-and/> the mass resignation (including the text of the board’s statement) this last weekend on his The Ubiquitous Librarianblog. In the post, Mathews also linked to a post from Chris Bourg<http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/my-short-stint-on-the-jla-editorial-board/>, one of the former board members, and from Jason Griffey<http://jasongriffey.net/wp/2013/03/23/the-journal-of-library-administration/>, who earlier declined to participate in Mathew’s project due to pointed reservations regarding T&F’s author policies. ... Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess @ gmail . com | @OAopenaccess _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
